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Friday, August 10, 2012
CYPRUS
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Sarris resigns after
China murder
trial ends in
seven hours
The Raven, starring
John Cusack,
opens today
pressure from
central bank
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A hero’s welcome
for Olympic champ
Fans flood airport
as Kontides returns
home with silver
medal from Games
By Elias Hazou
C
YPRUS’ ﬁrst-ever Olympic medal winner
Pavlos Kontides was
treated to a hero’s
welcome at Larnaca airport
yesterday, as his hometown
of Limassol prepared to party
well into the night.
Kontides’ ﬂight arrived with
about a half-hour’s delay,
which only served to work the
waiting crowd into a frenzy.
The airport terminal was
ﬂooded with fans, honking
horns and holding up banners
reading: “Thank you Pavlos.”
Fire engines sprayed a water arc on the runway close to
the bay where Kontides’ plane
docked. A similar honour was
bestowed on the Anorthosis
football club in 2005 after they
eliminated Turkey’s Trabzonspor in the UEFA Champions
League qualifying rounds, and
to tennis star Marcos Baghdatis for progressing to the Australian Open ﬁnal in 2006.
The crowd broke out in
chants once a slightly weary
but beaming Kontides ﬁnally
walked out into the passenger
terminal.
“I feel very proud and emotional right now,” Kontides
said in his ﬁrst comments to
television news crews broad-
casting the welcoming live.
“I cannot put these feelings
into words. I’d like to dedicate
this medal to my family, my
girlfriend, my coaches – the
folks who believed in me all
along and supported me,” he
said, promising yet more success in the future.
Kontides was greeted at the
airport by Education Minister
George Demosthenous and
Larnaca mayor Andreas Louroutziatis, who handed him a
commemorative plaque.
Donning an Olympic wreath
on his head and proudly holding his silver medal in his hand,
Kontides then waded through
the crowd and boarded a bus
headed for Limassol.
Kontides and his entourage
were expected at the Limassol
Nautical Club for an initial
welcoming and party.
“From what I hear, there are
going to be souvles (barbecue) until the morning hours,”
his coach said.
A public welcome has been
arranged for 6.30pm today at
the Enaerios area in Limassol,
where Kontides will be receiving various accolades from local sporting bodies.
Kontides’ Limassol Nautical
Club is also expected to put
on a sailing demonstration
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Pavlos Kontides, who won the silver medal for Cyprus in the men’s laser at the London Olympics, is mobbed by well
wishers at Larnaca airport after arriving home last night
(Christos Theodorides)
Cow goes to new heights to flee amorous bull’s advances
A COW which was not in the mood
ambled to the top storey of a Siberian
apartment building to escape a bull
which was, and had to be led back
down by ﬁreﬁghters, authorities said.
The cow was discovered bellowing on
the top of a stairwell in the ﬁve-storey
building in the village of Lesogorsk
last month, with the probable cause of
the cow’s distress an amorous bull at
the bottom. “The bull was very loving
and had paid excessive attention to
the cow during the summer grazing,”
the Irkutsk regional branch of Russia’s
Emergency Situations Ministry said in
a statement.
“Trying to escape from him, the cow
ran into the building and climbed up to
the ﬁfth storey,” it said.
It took ﬁreﬁghters about three minutes
to get the cow downstairs by roping
its horns and pulling, according to the
statement.
“When we arrived there were dozens
of people outside the building. There
were members of the local administration, police and many bystanders,” it
quoted ﬁre station shift chief Yevgeny
Smirnov as saying. “In principle, they
could have done without us.”
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CB boss calls for realism
Weather
Demetriades says no let-up on recession until 2014
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By Elias Hazou
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TODAY: Mainly hot and sunny, with a chance of afternoon showers over the
mountains. Temperatures will reach 39C inland, 36C in the south and east, 34C
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OUTLOOK: Temeratures are set to drop slightly over the weekend
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Data is recorded hourly.
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THE ECONOMY is not likely
to come out of recession anytime before 2014, but the coming sacriﬁces resulting from an
EU bailout will ultimately beneﬁt the island, Central Bank
Governor Panicos Demetriades said last night.
He warned of painful measures such as negative effects
on people’s income and also
spoke of the importance of
being realistic given what the
economy is facing.
“With the aid of the ﬁnancial support mechanism, and
through the consolidation
of the banking system and
of public ﬁnances, I believe
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chief said yesterday in an ex-
clusive televised interview
with the state broadcaster
CyBC. “We do not expect the
economy to come out of recession in 2013. But the foundations will be laid so that we
can create a healthy economy
for the medium-term,” Demetriades said.
He went on to acknowledge
that people’s income would
be negatively impacted as a
result of necessary cutbacks.
“Some of the measures will
undoubtedly be painful, but
we can look at this as an investment for the future,” he
said, adding: “It’s important
to be realistic.”
Cyprus, with a runaway deﬁcit, requested ﬁnancial aid
from the EU on June 25; since
then, ofﬁcials from the International Monetary Fund, the
European Commission and
the European Central Bank
- known as the ‘troika’ - have
twice visited the island.
The troika has stressed the
need for the government to
slash the expensive state
payroll – proportionately the
highest in the eurozone – and
introduce structural reforms.
Demetriades said a memorandum laying out the terms
of the loan would be signed
with the troika most likely by
the end of next month.
The loan interest would be
“quite low”, but on the ﬂipside
the repayment period would
be relatively short although
Cyprus expects to be granted
a certain grace period, Demetriades said.
The top banker forecast that
new capital would eventually
start ﬂowing to the island’s
banks - starved for cash and
in heavy need of recapitalisation.
This was key, he said, because economic recovery
would come about from the
private sector and its access
to liquidity – rather than from
the state pumping money into
the economy.
Ever since the application
for EU assistance was ﬁled
in June, the government has
been at pains to blame the
banks for the development,
while Demetriades has announced there would be a
thorough investigation into
their loan portfolios and investments.
Meanwhile an investigation
into whether banks may have
misled investors into buying
high-yield securities should be
completed by late September,
he said.
Kontides is
honoured at
homecoming
(continued from front page)
during the festivities. This
morning, the athlete will be
honoured with the Grand
Cross of the Order of Merit of
the Republic of Cyprus. He
will be presented with the distinction in a ceremony with
his family and President Demetris Christoﬁas at the presidential palace.
Kontides won Cyprus’ ﬁrst
medal at an Olympics when
he took the silver Monday in
sailing’s Laser class in Weymouth, England.
Currently ranked 11th in
the world, Kontides gave up
his university studies for two
years, and suffered through a
number of injuries during his
training.
Cyprus started taking part
in the modern-day Olympics
at the 1980 Moscow Games.
Kontides said on the Cyprus
Sailing Federation website
that he was inspired by his
father, himself a Cypriot sailing champion and former federation chief, to take up the
sport at age 9. His coach said
yesterday that Kontides has
potentially three more Olympic Games in him provided he
stays ﬁt.
Young fans push their way through to obtain an autograph of the medal winner
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By Elias Hazou
CHEESE-MAKERS yesterday sought to
assure consumers that no severe milk
shortages would arise as a result of a recent intervention in the market by the
competition watchdog.
Earlier this week milk suppliers warned
of impending shortages after the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) had ordered the Pancyprian
Cattle Farmers’ Organisation (POA) to
supply Pittas Dairies with 65 tonnes of
cow milk per day.
The cattle farmers say they have no
choice but to comply with the order. But
the quota imposed on them for supplying
Pittas means they must reduce supplies
to other dairy product companies, they
claim. But in a written statement yesterday, the Cyprus Cheese-Makers Associa-
tion said no milk shortages would arise
provided pasteurisers collaborated to
ensure a smooth supply to the domestic
consumer market.
The association said this would be
achieved by temporarily diverting some
of the milk quantities intended for
cheese-making to pasteurisation. It’s understood that, either way, August is traditionally a slow month for cheese-making
and that cheese-makers operate at below
capacity during this period.
However, the cheese-makers said the
fact they would be receiving smaller
quantities of milk would impact their
export business. It said that in recent
days the reduction in milk quantities
has reached 40 per cent in some cases.
The competition watchdog counters
that there should be enough milk to go
around, accusing POA – which represents
about 90 per cent of milk production on
the island – of deliberately manufacturing a crisis.
Meanwhile cattle farmers threw another spanner in the works yesterday,
announcing that the price of milk is set
to shoot up within the next few days.
“Raising the price of milk is our only
salvation,” said POA chairman Savvas
Evangelou.
The rising prices of animal feed left
them no choice, he explained.
Evangelou blamed the government for
not allocating farmers all the subsidies
they are demanding. Reacting to the
news, the Cyprus Consumers and Quality of Life Association called on the competition watchdog to intervene to stop
the price of milk from going up. Head
of the association Loukas Aristodemou
said it was unacceptable that fresh milk
here costs three times as much as it does
in Germany.
CYPRUS MAIL Friday, August 10, 2012
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Fire ravages
state forest
Sarris resigns
after pressure
from CB chief
A MASSIVE blaze raged
into the night yesterday in
a state forest in the Nicosia district, with ﬁreﬁghters on standby to ensure
the ﬂames did not reach
inhabited areas.
The ﬁre broke out in the
‘Aderﬁ’ state forest around
3.30pm, incinerating more
than one square kilometer,
according to Forestry ofﬁcials.
More than 20 ﬁreﬁghting
vehicles and 100 men were
deployed in a combined
effort by the Forestry Department, the Fire Department and Civil Defence.
Two ﬁreﬁghting planes
and two choppers joined
the efforts but had to stop
operating at dusk.
One ﬁreﬁghter was treated for respiratory problems; no injuries were reported. Senior Forestry
ofﬁcer Alekos Katalanos
said tractors and bulldozers would be working
through the night, moving
earth to cut off the ﬂames
where possible.
The nearest villages are
Ayios Epifanios, Askas and
Palechori. Inhabited areas were not at risk at the
time, Katalanos said.
‘I am only sorry this... would not allow me to
continue to provide my services to our country’
By George Psyllides
Electricity prices
to drop again
WITH the high temperatures
still gripping the island, consumers will breathe a sigh of
relief at their electricity expenses – at least for the next
month or so.
The Electricity Authority (EAC) adjusts its fuel cost
formula – the major component of electric bills - every
month. Due to dropping fuel
prices worldwide, the formula
is now to be adjusted 2.8 per
cent downwards.
This will apply to monthly
bills starting from July 1, and
to bi-monthly bills starting
August 1.
The EAC is obligated by law
to automatically adjust its
fuel cost formula.
The resulting 2.8 per cent reduction in fuel cost, combined
with the recent decrease of
the Mari surcharge, should
together generate savings of
around 4 per cent on the consumer end for the period in
question, the EAC said.
Michalis Sarris: governor’s desire that he should depart
MICHALIS Sarris, chairman of troubled statecontrolled Popular Bank
resigned his post yesterday
following pressure from the
Central Bank.
Sarris was replaced by
board member Andreas
Phillipou, who had spent
years in banking supervision at the Central Bank.
In a written statement issued after the board meeting, Sarris said he resigned
at the behest of the Central
Bank but did not wish to
comment further.
“Recently, the Central
Bank Governor verbally
expressed his desire that
I depart, noting that this
was also the position of
the government,” Sarris
said. “Since this is the wish
of the regulator and main
shareholder of the bank …
then certainly I will respect
it. I believe that this is not
the right moment for further comments.”
Sarris was appointed in
early 2012 to oversee the
bank’s
recapitalisation
drive – a difﬁcult task after
the heavy losses suffered
by the bank due to its huge
exposure to Greek debt.
Sarris said he had assumed the post “at a difﬁcult time for the bank” following an invitation from
the shareholders and the
inducement of the authorities.
“I am only sorry that this
development would not
allow me to continue to
provide my services to our
country from this position
during a difﬁcult period for
our future, which was the
only reason I accepted this
position,” Sarris said. Popular’s failure to come up
with the necessary capital
forced the lender to seek
state assistance in late
June.
Cyprus, which has been
shut out of international
capital markets for more
than a year, had to seek a
bailout to meet its €1.8 billion obligation to the bank.
Sarris’
departure
had
been rumoured for some
time, mainly because of his
frequent comments on ﬁscal slippage being partly to
blame for Cyprus’ present
predicament.
Sarris had served as ﬁnance minister under the
previous
administration,
successfully ushering the
island into the eurozone.
His name had been mooted
in August last year to replace Charilaos Stavrakis,
but his demand to have
free reign over the economy
apparently did not sit well
with the administration.
He was also close with
former Central Bank Governor Athanasios Orphanides, whose term was not
renewed when it expired in
early May.
Orphanides has accused
authorities of ﬁscal proﬂigacy, which he blamed for
Cyprus’ economic troubles,
saying
problems
could
have been averted had the
state heeded his warnings
sooner.
The government however, blames Orphanides
for the banks’ exposure
to Greece that led to the
current troubles. Sarris’
ouster followed the resignation of Bank of Cyprus
CEO Andreas Eliades early
in July, citing a lack of coordination in dealing with
Europe’s banking crisis as
his reason for leaving. Bank
of Cyprus, the island’s biggest lender, rattled domestic markets by unexpectedly seeking €500 million
in state support just prior
to a regulatory deadline to
bolster its core tier 1 capital last month.
Britain will send warships to the region if needed for Syria evacuations
BRITAIN intends to deploy warships to the Eastern Mediterranean to deal with the possible
evacuation of British nationals
from Syria and other neighbouring
countries, should the need arise,
Interior Minister Eleni Mavrou
said yesterday.
Mavrou told London Greek Radio
(LGR), in an interview, that this was
the message British Home Secretary Theresa May had conveyed to
her during their meeting in London
earlier in the week.
Britain retained two military bases
in Cyprus after it granted the island
its independence in 1960. Akrotiri
air base, on the southern coast, is
thought to be the largest overseas
air base the UK has worldwide and
has often served as a stepping stone
of evacuees from war zones.
Cyprus has also drawn up plans to
take in refugees from the ﬁghting in
Syria between government troops
and opposition forces. If such a crisis does erupt, ofﬁcials are hoping
the European Union will step in to
help.
In 2006, during a month-long war
between Israel and Hezbollah in
Lebanon, about 90,000 people ﬂed
to Cyprus by boat and on evacuation ﬂights. Britain and the United
States helped out, as many of those
ﬂeeing were foreign nationals.
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Top aide
was there
‘only as a
friend’
Ieronymides says he was
representing no one’s
interests at deal signing
By Stefanos Evripidou
TOP DIPLOMAT at the Presidential Palace Marios Ieronymides yesterday denied allegations of a conﬂict of interest
in his relationship with the
Chinese investor interested in
turning the old Larnaca airport into a commercial centre.
Ieronymides rejected claims
that he personally beneﬁted
from his “friendship” with
Yang Qi, sole shareholder of
Far Eastern Phoenix (FEP),
the Cyprus-registered company that signed a deal with
Hermes Airports on March 22,
2012 for a 19-year lease of the
old airport.
On the contrary, Ieronymides argued that he only
had the country’s best interests at heart in all his dealings
with Chinese businessmen.
He pointed out that when
serving as Cypriot ambassador to China- the post he
held prior to his appointment
as Director of the President’s
Diplomatic Ofﬁce- he encouraged many Chinese investors
and property buyers to come
to Cyprus.
The
Cypriot
diplomat
came under the spotlight on
Wednesday after daily Politis
reported that he was present
at the signing of the agreement between Hermes and
FEP. The paper also reported
that his wife, Tatiana Ieronymides, was a co-director of
FEP from its establishment
in April 2009 until March 17,
2012, resigning six days before
FEP signed the 19-year lease
agreement with Hermes.
Since then, the Chinese in-
vestor has been in negotiations with the government to
extend that deal for a further
31 years. Hermes Airports
released a statement after
the article’s publication stating that Ieronymides made it
clear during the signing that
he was present as a friend of
Yang Qi, not as a representative of the state.
Speaking to the state broadcaster yesterday, Ieronymides
said as ambassador in Beijing
he undertook huge efforts to
encourage Chinese investment in Cyprus.
He only found himself at
the signing of the agreement
because he was the one taking Yang Qi to the airport to
catch a ﬂight, the morning after the long night of negotiations which sealed the deal.
“I took him to airport, you
can ask (Hermes Chairman)
Mr (Nicolas) Shacolas, they
didn’t let me leave, they insisted I stay for the signing so
I highlighted I can stay as a
friend but I represent no one,”
said the diplomat.
Ieronymides acknowledged
that in hindsight, his presence
there may have been wrong.
“But I judged that they were
two private companies, and
made it clear that I don’t represent anyone.”
The ambassador said President Demetris Christoﬁas
was not informed about his
or his wife’s role in the matter,
adding that he was preparing
a memo to give to the president’s ofﬁce.
He said his conscience was
clear but that if necessary, he
would hand in his resignation.
He further disclosed that
he accompanied Yang Qi at
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The site of the old Larnaca airport, in which the Chinese company wants to invest
Company rep questions whether Cyprus even wants the investment
REPRESENTATIVE for FEP, Savvas
Poyiadjis, yesterday issued a statement
expressing the company’s “disappointment with the way its desire to invest
in Cyprus has been handled, and particularly the huge delay and the many
obstacles over a simple act of leasing”
the old airport.
“If for the Cypriot state, there are difﬁculties or insurmountable procedural
a second meeting, this time
with Communications Minister Efthymios Flourentzos to
discuss the investor’s desire
to extend the Hermes agreement.
“I took Mr Yang Qi to the
minister, because he knew no
one in Cyprus. I took him to
meet the minister,” he said,
noting that he exerted “great
effort” to convince Yang Qi
to invest in Cyprus. Regarding his wife’s involvement in
FEP, he said the company was
set up in 2009 to invest in the
Balkans, an idea which never
materialised. His wife is of
Serbian origin.
“Mr Yang Qi decided to use
this company for the airport
project, and for ethical purposes my wife resigned and
left the company six days before a private agreement between Hermes and Mr Yang’s
company. Where is the ﬂaw in
that?”asked Ieronymides.
problems for leasing the space of the
airport, the company is ready to discuss purchasing private land, abandoning the idea of the old airport, provided
that there won’t be other obstacles and
that prompt procedures will be agreed
allowing the implementation of the
project within a reasonable time frame,”
he said. Poyiadjis rejected any notion
that the company received favourable
He added: “My wife is director of a Serbian company and
is on the board of another ten
companies.”
The top diplomat questioned
why no one mentions the fact
that Yang Qi is the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency
representative in Beijing or
that he is also Cyprus’ honorary consul in Macau.
Ieronymides stressed that he
“dedicated so much time” to
securing Chinese investment
in Cyprus, adding: “I don’t
want anyone to say thank you
or anything, but from Beijing
I did my duty... the 150 residential property purchases
(by Chinese buyers) in the
last month in Cyprus, do you
think that is by chance?”
Flourentzos
yesterday
backed Ieronymides’ claim
that he had no involvement
in negotiations on the airport
project. Once the Chinese investor requested a 31-year ex-
treatment, arguing that, on the contrary, it has been subjected to “excessive
checks”, casting doubt over whether
Cyprus even wanted the investment to
go ahead.
He said the project is supported by the
Chinese government, adding that the
company is ready to provide full disclosure of its intentions in Cyprus, noting
that “it has nothing to hide”.
tension to the lease, the ministerial committee got to work
on the proposal.
“He had no institutional or
any other kind of involvement,
and neither could he,” said the
minister. Flouretzos acknowledged that the government
only found out in May that
the majority of FEP’s shares
(50.1 per cent) also belonged
to Yang Qi. Before that, they
were only aware that he owned
the other 49.9 per cent.
As for Ieronymides’ wife’s
position as former director
of FEP, the government discovered this fact last week,
he said. Christoﬁas was informed last Friday. Asked if
the president was surprised,
the minister replied: “He certainly wasn’t happy.” Parties
across the political spectrum
called for an investigation to
provide full transparency and
clariﬁcation of what exactly
went on. DISY spokesman
Haris Georgiades took it a
step further, calling for Ieronymides’ suspension so that
an investigation could take
place. Regarding the 150 sales
of immoveable property, Georgiades said immigration ofﬁcials have complained to him
about the diplomat, claiming
Ieronymides put heavy pressure on them to issue permanent residence status to Chinese buyers.
Ieronymides responded to
the allegation: “There is a cabinet decision from 2009, which
provides that any foreigner
who buys a residence above
€300,000 in value, has the right
to get permanent residence.”
He argued there was no way
he could pressure immigration ofﬁcials since a special
committee headed by the interior ministry’s permanent
secretary was responsible for
giving such status.
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Ryanair promises refunds
By Natalie Hami
Airline says its website is now updated
RYANAIR yesterday assured
customers who have booked
any ﬂights to and from Cyprus, which have been suspended as of November, that
they would have their money
refunded.
The low-cost carrier conﬁrmed on Wednesday it would
be suspending all ﬂights to
and from Larnaca airport this
winter, starting in November,
and cutting back from 15 to
four destinations to and from
Paphos. The announcement
was made after arduous negotiations with the Cyprus
Tourism Organisation (CTO)
failed to have the ﬂights continue throughout the winter
period November-March.
Since 2010 Ryanair has been
ﬂying to four secondary European airports from Larnaca;
Dusseldorf Weeze, Barcelona
Girona, Bologna and Brussels
Charleroi, and set up a hub in
Paphos earlier this year from
where it was operating 15 destinations.
Ryanair’s Maria Macken,
sales manager for the Cypriot
market said that as of yesterday the airline’s website had
been adjusted to account for
the suspended routes. Macken said that anyone who had
booked on any of the cancelled
destinations for after November 1, would be contacted by
the airline and would receive a
full refund.
Ryanair ditched Larnaca until summer 2013, citing higher
fuel costs. It has tried to negotiate higher ﬁnancial incentives from the cash-strapped
Cyprus Tourism Organisation
but the talks were unsuccessful.
The airline was reportedly
asking for double the incentives for the ‘promotion’ of its
Larnaca ﬂights.
In Paphos yesterday, the
regional tourism board said
that they were happy with
what Ryanair had achieved
there since it began ﬂights in
April this year. The four routes
that will continue throughout
the winter are: Chania Crete,
London Stansted, Milan Bergamo and Thessalonica.
“From the ofﬁcial statistics
we have up until today Rya-
nair has accommodated more
than 190,000 passengers while
the company has signiﬁcantly
boosted the local and the island’s overall economy,” said
Nasos Hadjigeorgiou, head of
the board.
He added that one of the primary achievements had been
access into new markets such
as Sweden, Italy and Norway.
“It (Ryanair) contributes to
the upgrade of the function of
Paphos airport and has created new job positions in the
tourist (sector), restaurants,
commercial businesses while
at the same time supporting
small businesses in Paphos
and islandwide,” said Hadjigeorgiou.
New
remand
for Napa
murder
suspects
By Poly Pantelides
LARNACA court yesterday renewed an eight-day
remand for two men being
held in relation to a shooting
in Ayia Napa in June.
The Greek nationals, 29year-old Demetris Mamalikopoulos, and Anastasios
Tsehilides, 41, have been
remanded once in early August, after a hand-over from
the Greek authorities.
The shooting took place on
June 23 near the Red Square
bar in the popular tourist
hub of Ayia Napa.
Four of the men were security guards for Famagusta
The scene of the shooting in Ayia Napa on June 23 when ﬁve men were gunned down in their car
businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis, who the police think
was the target.
Police investigator Giorgos
Economou told the court
yesterday that DNA samples
from cigarette stubs placed
Mamalikopoulos
across
from the Kalopsidiotis’ coffee shop before the murders.
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Economou told the court
last week that Mamalikopoulos had spent two days
watching the coffee shop.
DNA samples also placed
both men in a car, rented on
June 19 when the two men
arrived in Cyprus, which was
returned on June 23, the day
of the murder when they
both left for Athens on different ﬂights.
The police believe that
Tsehilides allegedly drove
the getaway car and Mamalikopoulos allegedly shot the
men.
Police say they have CCTV
footage placing the two
Greeks at their hotel and at
the crime scene, and that
mobile phone records pointed to two collaborators.
The police believe one of
those is the mastermind.
Mamalikopoulos
denies
calling anyone except his
girlfriend.
The court previously heard
that the two men changed
hotels twice in four days,
and called someone at Larnaca airport minutes after
the murders.
It was their third visit in
two months, Economou said.
The victims’ moving car was
shot at 3.24am on the day
of the murders. The killer
shot fourteen times, hitting
the victims in the chest and
head. The shooter then ran
50 metres towards a car,
police said. Police found 14
nine millimetre shells from a
Glock pistol at the scene but
no murder weapon. Both
men deny any involvement
in the murders. Tsehilides
has been assigned a lawyer
as he is unemployed and has
no property to his name, or
a spouse to support him.
The police have been taking testimonies and are
waiting on forensic tests’
results.
Grab a
beach
bed for
Perseids
show
By Natalie Hami
THE FAKAS Institute is
setting up a telescope in
the gardens of Kyperounda
hospital to best take in the
Perseids meteor shower on
Sunday.
According to the institute’s Ioannis Fakas people
began calling two weeks
before the ofﬁcial announcement to make sure
they would be able to participate. The telescope will
be set up between 9.30pm
and 11.30pm.
But for those with no
powerful telescope or no
means of being in Kyperounda for the show, Fakas
said the spectacle could
be watched with the naked
eye.
“The telescope is mainly
for people to have a look at
Saturn,” he said.
He said the meteor shower could be watched by
anyone lying down with
an obstructed view of the
night sky. He said a beach
bed was ideal or anywhere
out of the city.
“That’s why we chose
Troodos because it’s clear
up there,” he said.
The Perseids are a proliﬁc
meteor shower associated
with the comet Swift-Tuttle and are named such because the point from which
they appear to come lies in
the constellation Perseus.
The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet
as it travels on its 130-year
orbit.
Most of the dust in the
cloud today is around a
thousand years old.
The shower began on July
17 but will reach its peak
this Sunday with the greatest amount of meteors falling between August 11 and
12. During the peak, the
rate of meteors reaches 60
or more per hour.
For more information on
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‘DNA test confirms suspect in Larnaca rape of Palestinian boy’
THE 37-YEAR-OLD man suspected of
raping a 10-year-old Palestinian boy last
week will be appearing in court today to
hear the charges against him.
He is next expected to be referred to
trial by a criminal court.
The man has been in police custody
since last Friday, when he was identiﬁed by the alleged victim at Larnaca
police headquarters. The suspect was
there reporting to police as part of
his bail conditions; he was free on bail
awaiting trial for attempting to sexually
abuse two other children (both boys)
last year.
The alleged rape of the Palestinian
boy took place last Wednesday.
Reports yesterday said that DNA
tests had proved the man was in fact
the rapist.
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Police spokesman Lefki Solomontos
told reporters: “We believe that scientiﬁc evidence, as well as other evidence
obtained during the course of the investigation, will go a long way toward proving in court the offences under investigation.”
Today the police are expected to ask
that the suspect remain in custody until the commencement of his trial.
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World
China murder trial
ends in seven hours
Britain to hold
an inquest into
Litvinenko killing
Murder
charge not
contested by
Bo Xilai’s wife
BRITAIN has appointed a
senior judge to hold an inquest into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former
Russian agent turned Kremlin
critic whose death from polonium poisoning in London in
2006 soured relations between
London and Moscow.
Britain’s Judicial Ofﬁce said
on Thursday it had selected
Robert Owen, an experienced
judge, for the task and that he
would hold a hearing in September to decide how the inquest will be conducted and
whether it will be heard before a jury.
Litvinenko’s wife Marina,
who lives in Britain, said she
felt relieved at the decision. “I
am just happy,” she said.
The decision to appoint a
judge comes a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin
made his ﬁrst visit to London
in nine years to watch judo
with British Prime Minister
David Cameron and risks
souring slowly improving relations.
Ties between Britain and
Russia plunged to a post-Cold
War low after Litvinenko’s
killing complete with tit-fortat diplomatic expulsions.
Russia has since refused to
By John Ruwitch
THE woman at the centre of
China’s most politically explosive trial in three decades
did not contest charges of
murder yesterday in a hearing that lasted just seven
hours and could determine
the fate of former Politburo
member Bo Xilai.
A formal verdict will be
delivered at a later date, a
court ofﬁcial said, recounting details of the closeddoor hearing.
Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, chose
not to contest the charge of
murdering British businessman Neil Heywood whose alleged secretive dealings with
the couple fuelled a scandal
exposing the intimate nexus
between money and power in
China’s elite.
The dramatic account of
Heywood’s death by poisoning is also likely to sound the
ﬁnal death knell to Bo’s political career, even as sympathisers cast him as the victim of a
push to oust him and discredit his left-leaning agenda.
“The accused Bogu (Gu)
Kailai and Zhang Xiaojun did
not raise objections to the accusations of intentional homicide,” the ofﬁcial, Tang Yigan,
said after the hearing, referring also to Gu’s co-accused,
an aide to the family.
State television showed Gu,
wearing a dark trouser suit
Gu Kailai (centre) is accused of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood
and a white shirt, being led
into the courtroom and being
seated in the dock.
The court ofﬁcial quoted
prosecutors as saying Gu and
Zhang had killed Heywood
with a poisoned drink in far
southwestern
Chongqing
last November, after a business dispute between Gu and
Heywood. Bo ruled the vast
municipality until he was
sacked in March just before
the murder scandal burst
into the open.
As a result of the dispute
with Heywood, Gu had become convinced Heywood
was a threat to her son, Bo
Guagua, the ofﬁcial said without elaborating.
“Gu Kailai believed that
Neil Heywood had threatened the personal safety of
her son Bo (Guagua) and de-
cided to kill him,” the ofﬁcial
added, reading from a statement to a packed news conference of dozens of reporters
who had been barred entry to
the courtroom in the eastern
city of Hefei.
The aide, Zhang, had driven
Heywood to Chongqing last
November from Beijing and
prepared a poison which was
to be put later into a drink
of water. Later that day,
Heywood met Gu at a hotel,
he became drunk and then
asked for water.
“She poured a poison into
his mouth,” the ofﬁcial said.
Gu and Zhang face the
death penalty if convicted.
Many legal experts expect
Gu will be convicted but
only sentenced to a lengthy
jail term, citing her desire to
protect her son, who gradu-
‘Potential growing for food crisis as prices surge’
THE world could face a food crisis of the
kind seen in 2007/08 if countries restrict exports on concerns about a drought-fuelled
grain price rally, the UN’s food agency
warned yesterday, after reporting a surge
in global food prices in July.
A mix of high oil prices, growing use of
biofuels, bad weather, soaring grain futures
markets and restrictive export policies
pushed up prices of food in 2007/08, sparking violent protests in countries including
Egypt, Cameroon and Haiti.
Concern about extreme hot and dry
weather in the US Midwest sent corn and
soybean prices to record highs last month,
driving overall food prices higher again and
reversing the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s forecast for declines this year.
“There is potential for a situation to
develop like we had back in 2007/08,” the
FAO’s senior economist and grain analyst
Abdolreza Abbassian said, adding that “if
(the 2007/08) policies get repeated, anything is possible.”
ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY OF CYPRUS
INTERRUPTION OF SUPPLY
The Electricity Authority of Cyprus announces that the electricity supply will be interrupted on
Monday, 13 August 2012 from 08:00 to 12:00 hours to all the consumers in the following areas:
1.
2.
3.
Athienou village.
Avdellero village.
Troulloi village.
AS THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THE ELECTRICITY WILL BE OFF THROUGHOUT
THE PERIOD STATED, INSTALLATIONS IN ALL PREMISES MUST BE REGARDED AS
BEING “ALIVE” AT ALL TIMES.
(AFP)
ated from Harvard this year,
as a mitigating factor.
Britain’s Foreign Ofﬁce has
declined to comment until
the outcome of the case.
Poisoned: Litvinenko
extradite Andrei Lugovoy,
the ex-KGB bodyguard Britain wants to prosecute for
Litvinenko’s murder by poisoning.
The Judicial Ofﬁce, which is
independent of government
ministers, said the timing of
the inquest announcement
was unconnected to Putin’s
visit or any other political
consideration.
Britain
rarely
appoints
judges as coroners in charge
of inquests, reserving their
appointment for the most
complex and high-proﬁle cases, such as the 1997 death of
Princess Diana or the killings
of London commuters in suicide attacks in 2005.
PRESS RELEASE
Oneworld ltd and George Philippides have filed a lawsuit in the Limassol
district court for defamation and mendacity against the Bank of Moscow and
its president Mikhail Kuzovlev.
The Plaintiffs are one of the biggest professional firms representing and
managing international companies in Cyprus. In accordance with the writ of
summons the Plaintiffs are seeking in excess of €2.000.000 in compensation
for damage to their reputation due to events which occurred in February
2012 in Limassol. Mr Kuzovlev, president of the Bank of Moscow has caused
injury to the Plaintiffs with his speech at the Business Forum for RussianCyprus investments which took place at the Meridien Hotel. The Forum was
attended by the President of the Republic, prominent personalities, other
professionals and business people from Russia and Cyprus.
It is well known that there was a change of management in the Bank of
Moscow in 2011. The new management accused the former president and
former vice-president of the Bank of wrongdoing. As the new president of
the Bank of Moscow has attempted to embroil the Plaintiffs in this matter,
the Plaintiffs have proceeded with the filing of the lawsuit. It is expected
that other lawsuits will soon be filed on relevant issues.
It is worth noting that the Cyprus companies have transferred to Bank of
Moscow all the assets which they have acquired through their loans, thus
repaying all their debt obligations to the Bank.
The former management of the Bank of Moscow accuses the board of management of waging a politically motivated persecution which is linked with
the ousting by the Kremlin of the Moscow ex-mayor, Mr Luzkov.
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World
EU pact
ruling a
victory
for French
president
FRANCE’S
Constitutional
Council ruled yesterday the
EU’s budget responsibility
pact did not require a change
to the constitution, easing
its path to ratiﬁcation and
removing a potential headache for President Francois
Hollande.
The court’s ruling opens the
way for Hollande’s Socialist
government, which had insisted it did not want to write
a budgetary rule into the constitution, to implement the
pact as soon as September
using a “super-law” that requires only a simple majority
in parliament.
A constitutional reform
would have required a threeﬁfths majority in a special
joint session of parliament
and could have entailed a
lengthy debate on Europe
which could have exposed divisions in Socialist ranks. The
party was bitterly split in 2005
over whether to approve the
EU Constitution, which was
eventually rejected in a national referendum.
Welcoming the decision, Hollande urged his government
to press ahead with quickly
drafting the legislation.
“The President calls on the
government to rapidly prepare a draft law authorising
the ratiﬁcation of the pact as
well as a draft organic law to
guarantee the appropriate
application of the text,” Hollande’s ofﬁce said in a statement.
The ﬁscal pact, signed in
March and committing governments to tight deﬁcit limits, must be ratiﬁed by 12 of
the 17 eurozone countries
before it can come into force
in January, with the aim of
calming investors concerned
at heavy public debts.
Eleven EU member states
have ratiﬁed the pact, not including Germany, where the
Constitutional Court will rule
in mid-September whether
it contravenes the German
charter.
WORLD
TODAY
Belarus arrests
A picture released by the
Syrian opposition’s Shaam
News Network on August 8,
2012, shows destruction in
Damascus allegedly caused
by shelling of forces loyal to
Bashar al-Assad
(AFP)
Iran allies assemble in
Syria diplomatic push
By Marcus George
IRANIAN Foreign Minister
Ali Akbar Salehi called yesterday for “serious and inclusive” talks between the Syrian
government and opposition
groups, opening a meeting of
friendly nations called by Tehran as it seeks to exert its inﬂuence over the conﬂict.
More than 25 nations were
present at the conference but
signiﬁcantly none of them back
the Syrian opposition or have
called for President Bashar alAssad to leave power.
State television broadcast
the opening statement of the
talks, which Salehi said were
attended by delegations from
Russia, China, Iraq, Pakistan,
Jordan, India, among others.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran
ﬁrmly believes that the Syrian crisis can only be resolved
Tehran calls for Damascus
and opposition to hold talks
through serious and inclusive
talks between the government
and opposition groups that
enjoy popular support in Syria,” Salehi said at the start of
a conference in Tehran to discuss the unrest.
In the speech broadcast live
on Iranian TV, Salehi said that
Iran “rejects any foreign and
military intervention in Syria
and backs and supports UN
efforts to resolve the crisis”.
The Syrian government has
said it is ready for dialogue
but the opposition says Assad
must step down as a precursor to any negotiations. Continued hostilities in Aleppo,
where the Syrian military is
bombarding rebel ﬁghters,
make talks unlikely in the
near future.
Also present at the Tehran
meeting was the United Nations resident coordinator
to Tehran, Consuelo VidalBruce, who read out a statement from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
“Both the government and the
opposition continued to rely on
weapons,” the statement read,
and such actions would have
“tragic consequences for the
Syrian people”.
All parties had a common
responsibility to “end the
violence and the killing of civilians,” the Iranian student
news agency reported.
In an opinion piece published by the Washington Post
on Wednesday, Salehi warned
there would be catastrophic
consequences if Assad fell
from power. “Syrian society is
a beautiful mosaic of ethnicities, faiths and cultures, and
it will be smashed to pieces
should President Bashar alAssad abruptly fall,” it read.
While Salehi said Iran sought
a solution that was in “everyone’s interest”, Western diplomats have dismissed the conference as an attempt to divert
attention away from bloody
events on the ground and to
preserve the rule of Assad.
“The Islamic Republic’s
support for Assad’s regime
is hardly compatible with a
genuine attempt at conciliation between the parties,” said
one Western diplomat based
in Tehran.
Assad replaces fugitive PM as rebels pushed back in Aleppo
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad named a new prime minister yesterday to replace
Syria’s most senior government defector as his forces
pushed rebels back from a
strategic district in Aleppo.
Assad appointed Wael alHalki, a Sunni Muslim from
the southern province of Deraa where the Syrian uprising erupted 17 months ago,
to head the government after Riyad Hijab ﬂed on Mon-
THIS WEEK IN YOUR
day after spending only two
months in the job.
Hijab’s dramatic escape
across the border to Jordan dealt another blow to
Assad’s authority, already
shaken by the assassina-
tion last month of four of
his top security ofﬁcials and
by rebel gains in Damascus,
Aleppo and swathes of rural
Syria.
Meanwhile, rebels ﬁghting in the Aleppo district
of Salaheddine, a southern
gateway to the city, said they
had been forced to fall back
from frontline positions yesterday by a ﬁerce bombardment which had reduced
buildings to rubble.
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POLICE in Belarus have
arrested two journalists for posing for photographs holding teddy
bears after hundreds were
dropped by air on the
country in a pro-democracy stunt, the Belarussian
Association of Journalists
said yesterday.
Alexander Lukashenko,
the country’s authoritarian president, also
suggested yesterday that
the Swedish embassy in
Minsk had been involved
in planning the July 4
escapade, in an outburst
likely to widen a diplomatic rift with Sweden
over the incident.
“Those who came and
prepared the violation of
the state border worked
together with the (Swedish) embassy. We have
proof of this,” Lukashenko was quoted as saying by the Belarus state
news agency Belta.
Camp cleared
FRENCH police raided
a makeshift Roma camp
yesterday, evicting 200
people as the Socialist
government quietly follows the former conservative administration’s
policy of repatriating
illegal immigrants.
Dozens of police ofﬁcers
in riot gear descended on
the camp near the city of
Lille, in northern France,
shortly after dawn to oversee the evacuation of some
200 Roma living in mobile
homes near a highway.
The evacuation follows a
series of police raids this
week in Paris and Lyon
during which hundreds
of undocumented Roma
immigrants from eastern
Europe were forced from
their homes.
Mt Athos blaze
A WILDFIRE raged
through Greece’s 1,000year-old monastic community of Mount Athos yesterday, forcing hundreds of
residents and tourists in a
nearby village to ﬂee, ofﬁcials said. The blaze, which
broke out on Wednesday
in a forested area on the
Mount Athos peninsula in
northern Greece, burned
down two abandoned
warehouses, but ofﬁcials
said there were no reports
of anyone hurt.
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World
Friday, August 10, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL
10
Business
Investors
slow to
support
StanChart
INVESTORS are proving
slow to rally behind Standard
Chartered after allegations
the bank broke US sanctions
against Iran, spooked by talk
of risky countersuits, record
ﬁnes and fears top executives
could lose their jobs.
Chief
Executive
Peter
Sands’ defence of StanChart’s
cherished image as one of
the cleanest names in global
ﬁnance has so far failed to
convince some shareholders,
who are taking their time to
reappraise their exposure to
the latest in a string of British banking scandals.
StanChart lost more than
a quarter of its market value
in 24 hours after the New
York State Department of
Financial Services (DFS)
accused the bank on Monday of assisting $250-billion
of money-laundering transactions with Iran, earning
lucrative fees over nearly 10
years.
The volume of illicit transactions has been ﬁercely
contested by StanChart executives, who claim just $14million-worth of deals ﬂouted
the strict US rules.
At 1,363 pence, StanChart
shares are still trading
around 15 per cent down on
levels before the New York
regulator branded it a “rogue
institution", reﬂecting concerns it could struggle to
shake the tag off.
“Even if it is only $14 million, they have still committed a crime, and they are
still guilty,” one top 10 investor told Reuters, explaining
why the shares remained depressed.
“And if this is hot air and
they are just blufﬁng, then
they are playing a very dangerous game,” the investor
said, putting the risk of either
Sands or Chief Financial Ofﬁcer Richard Meddings quitting the bank at “5- to 8-per
cent and rising”.
These Bank of Cyprus rates
for telegraphic transfer
transactions (spot deals)
apply to yesterday, but provide a good guide to today’s
value against the euro.
Buying Selling
Pound St
0.7937 0.7859
US Dollar
1.2443 1.2319
1.1822
1.1530
Canadian Dol.
1.2452 1.2144
Swiss Fr
1.2085 1.1941
Denmark Kr
7.5367 7.3507
Japan Yen
97.7178 96.5522
Norwegian Kr
7.3541 7.1725
Polish Zloty
4.1163
4.0147
Romanian Leu 4.6365 4.4547
Russian Ruble 39.5201 38.5443
Swedish Kr
European
shares
approach
2012 high
By Steven C. Johnson
and Richard Hubbard
U.S. stocks hovered near a
four-year high and European shares closed in on their
2012 peak yesterday after
Chinese economic data kept
hope alive that global central banks would do more to
stimulate growth.
Oil prices edged up as well
after China said annual consumer inﬂation hit a 30-month
low last month as industrial
output grew at it slowest pace
in some three years.
Financial markets saw that
as a sign that ofﬁcials would
do more to stimulate the
world’s second-largest economy, which has been losing
momentum since the start of
last year.
Those hopes offset worries
that the European Central
Bank, which outlined a plan
last week to help cut escalating borrowing costs in Spain
and Italy, was taking too long
to follow through.
That weakened the euro yesterday and, some traders said,
was helping to slow US stocks’
ﬁve-week march higher.
“If you’re anticipating more
quantitative easing and a reasonable possibility of modest
earnings growth, equities
aren’t particularly expensive
and so they can grind higher,” said Richard Batty, global investment strategist at
Standard Life Investments.
“But we shouldn’t get car-
Traders work on the ﬂoor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 7, 2012 in New York City
ried away,” he added.
On Wall Street, The Dow
Jones industrial average was
up 0.79 points, or 0.01 per cent,
at 13,176.43. The Standard &
Poor’s 500 Index was down
0.01 points, or 0.00 percent,
at 1,402.21, just a breath away
from a four-year high around
1,422.
The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 0.01 points, or
0.00 per cent, at 1,402.21
The FTSE Euroﬁrst 300 index of top European shares
traded around 1,098 points,
just under its 2012 peak of
1,106.79 hit on March 16 after
the European Central Bank
pumped a trillion euros of
cash into the banking system.
Evidence that the eurozone’s
debt and growth problems
have caused a slowdown in
economic activity in the United States and Asia has added
to expectations that other
major central banks will soon
announce their own plans to
ease policies.
Over the last ﬁve years, the
world’s major central banks
have cut interest rates to
record lows and pumped trillions into the ﬁnancial system
through unconventional policies, an attempt to prop up
global growth as households,
companies and governments
try to reduce high levels of
debt.
Exactly ﬁve years ago - on
August 9, 2007 - the ECB got
the ball rolling when it injected an unprecedented amount
of funds into a stalled ﬁnancial system after French bank
BNP Paribas said losses on
US subprime mortgages had
forced it to halt redemptions
at three of its funds.
Other leading central banks
followed suit on a day widely
regarded as marking the start
of the ﬁnancial crisis.
Commodity markets took
their cue from the Chinese
data and the prospects of
further central bank action.
Brent crude rose for a ﬁfth session to add 31 cents to $112.45
a barrel &lt; LCOc1&gt; while
gold rose $2.82 to just above
$1,614 an ounce.
US crude oil rose 44 cents to
(AFP)
$93.79 per barrel
“Sentiment
has
turned
around from the end of June
on supportive factors such
as potential stimulus packages from the Federal Reserve
Bank and the European Central Bank,” said Tetsu Emori,
a Tokyo-based commodities
fund manager at Astmax Investment.
The euro fell 0.6 per cent to
$1.2294 while benchmark 10year German bunds were little
changed to yield 1.433.
US government bonds struggled after US data showed a
larger-than-expected decline
in the number of Americans
ﬁling for ﬁrst-time jobless
beneﬁts and a narrowing of
the US trade deﬁcit.
Greece’s jobless rate hits new record, more pain ahead
Rates
Australian $
Stimulus hopes keep US
stocks near four-year high
8.3830 8.1760
GREECE’S jobless rate climbed to a
new record in May, underlining how
austerity prescribed to slash deﬁcits
and keep bailout funds ﬂowing is hitting the economy on which recovery
depends.
Latest data yesterday showed the
jobless rate had climbed to 23.1 per
cent, with nearly 55 per cent of those
aged 15 to 24 out of work, a desperate
situation that fed into the popularity
of anti-bailout parties in Greek elections this year.
The gloomy data coincided with
news that the government plans to
revive a labour reserve measure targeting 40,000 public servants for eventual dismissal, in a drive to achieve
11.5 billion euros in savings promised
to international lenders.
Government ofﬁcials citing this
scheme said Athens also intends to
shed tens of thousands of temporary
contract workers by streamlining its
needs across ministries and state entities.
Unemployment in Greece is already
more than twice the average rate in
the 17 countries sharing the euro, and
nearly as bad as in Spain where the
jobless rate registered 24.6 per cent in
the second quarter.
Unemployment in Greece is already more than twice the average rate in
the 17 countries sharing the euro
Greece’s statistics service reported
that unemployment climbed to 23.1
per cent in May from 22.6 per cent in
April.
“My unemployment beneﬁt runs out
in a few months, I hope the government keeps its promise to extend it by
another 12 months,” said Eva Grigor-
iou, 42, who lost her job in retail trade
as the recession led to cutbacks.
“I don’t see light at the end of the
tunnel with more austerity ahead.
Recovery is being pushed back every
year,” she said.
The sharp labour market deterioration, coupled with cuts in pay and
pensions and a bleak economic outlook, have fuelled anger against the
pro-bailout mainstream parties which
suffered major losses in two election
rounds in May and June.
The data showed 1.147 million people were ofﬁcially jobless, 37.2 percent more than in the same month a
year earlier.
The bulk of job losses have hit the
private sector as most public sector
employees enjoy jobs-for-life status.
Other data on Thursday showed
Greece’s construction sector, once
a key growth driver, slumped again
in May, as austerity sapped demand
for new homes. The statistics service ELSTAT said 31 per cent fewer
building permits were issued than in
May 2011.
Think tank IOBE expects the economy will continue to contract for a ﬁfth
consecutive year in 2012, forecasting
that gross domestic product (GDP)
will shrink 6.9 per cent.
“The unemployment rate could go
higher and register 24 per cent from
September. Our forecast is that for
the year as a whole it will likely average 23.6 per cent,” said Angelos
Tsakanikas, an economist at the
IOBE think tank.
CYPRUS MAIL Friday, August 10, 2012
11
Opinion
In the fuss over
airport deal, the
right questions
need to be asked
AUGUST is usually the slowest month of the
year for news, which may partly explain the
big fuss made about the friendly relations between the director of the president’s diplomatic ofﬁce, Marios Ieronymides and the Chinese
businessman Yang Qi. Yang Qi is the owner
of the company Far Eastern Phoenix (FEP),
which is currently negotiating terms with
the government for turning the old Larnaca
airport into a regional commercial centre.
Newspapers have been crying ‘foul’ because
Ieronymides’ Serbian wife was a director of
FEP when it made the airport proposal earlier
this year. She stepped down in March, around
the time the provisional agreement between
the FEP and the government had been signed.
Then again, Mrs Ieronymides, is a businesswoman in her own right and had been a director of FEP since 2009 long before the Larnaca
Airport project had even been thought of.
According to her husband, she had joined the
company because it had plans, which eventually fell through, to undertake projects in the
Balkans. She did the right thing in stepping
down when FEP started discussing the airport
project, because of her husband’s state position. As for Ieronymides, his friendship with
Yang Qi that dates back to when he was ambassador in Beijing, could hardly be described
as unethical.
All good ambassadors try to promote the
commercial interests of their country when
abroad and this is achieved by developing
friendly relations with local businessmen. In
the case of Cyprus, which does not have industrial products to sell, its ambassador would
encourage foreign businessmen to invest in
the island, which was what Ieronymides did. It
was not as if there were hundreds of Chinese
businessmen queuing up to invest in Cyprus
and Ieronymides favoured the company of
which his wife was a director.
Meanwhile, the negotiations between the government and FEP were the responsibility of a
ministerial committee headed by the Communications Minister Efthymios Flourentzos, who
said that Ieronymides had no role in the negotiations. He was present during the signing
of the agreement with FEP as a friend of Yang
Qi, which may have been unwise, given his
state position. This is why there should be an
investigation to establish if Ieronymides was
guilty of any wrongdoing or improper conduct,
because on the surface he does not appear to
have done much wrong.
Perhaps there should also be an investigation
into FEP, 50.1 per cent of whose shareholding
is held in trust by Montrago Nominees Ltd.
Yang Qi, who owns the 49.9 per cent of the
company was also the owner of the Montrago
shares, stated the law ﬁrm that represents
him, but the government needs to look into
the matter. It should also establish how a company with a share capital of a thousand euro
could undertake a multi-million euro project.
These are more important questions to
answer than Ieronymides’ relations with the
Chinese businessman.
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African kleptocracy’s
US civil rights helpers
A
S BIZARRE events go,
pride of place must go
to an African summit
scheduled for later this
month in Equatorial Guinea.
The meeting’s agenda includes
human rights and good governance and it will be hosted
by Teodore Obiang, Africa’s
longest-serving leader, whose
government has won a reputation for corruption and repression.
What makes the event even
more noteworthy is the fact
that it is being organised by a
Washington-based organisation
founded by an American civil
rights leader of sterling repute,
the late Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, a champion of freedom
and human rights. The Leon H.
Sullivan Foundation is now run
by his daughter, Hope Sullivan
Masters.
The Chairman of the board is
Andrew Young, like Sullivan a
leader in the 1960s civil rights
movement. Foundation documents list former President Bill
Clinton as an Honorary Chairman.
The summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea’s capital, will bring
together 4,000 delegates, including “nearly 25 heads of state”
from Aug. 20 to 24, according
to the Foundation’s website.
Obiang, who has been in power
since he ousted his uncle in a
bloody coup in 1979, will host
the discussions, under the motto “Africa Rising.”
Why Malabo? Why Obiang?
As Thor Halvorssen, head of
the New York-based Human
Rights Foundation, sees it: “The
Sullivan Foundation, charged
with advocating for civil rights
and justice, appears to be running a disinformation campaign
for a dictator.”
That, in fact, seems to be a key
reason for holding the event.
One of the pre-summit press releases issued by the Foundation
says the summit is designed “to
combat the negative image of
Equatorial Guinea” and the host
site “will stand to challenge the
international media, global human rights organisations and
Western nations who have consistently been critical of President Obiang.”
Brightening the image of the
Obiang government will require more than workshops and
speeches extolling the virtue of
good governance and the need
to end a culture of impunity
Comment
Bernd
Debusmann
(both listed as agenda topics).
Even on a continent which has
had its fair share of corrupt and
ruthless dictatorships, Equatorial Guinea stands out.
It ranks 172nd out of 182 on
the corruption index issued annually by Transparency International, a Berlin-based watchdog
group.
Freedom House, a US human
rights group, lists Equatorial
Guinea on the top of its “worst
of the worst” list of human rights
abusers, alongside North Korea,
Somalia, Sudan and Syria.
The Committee to Protect
Journalists rates Equatorial
Guinea as the ﬁfth most censored country in the world.
The US Department of State’s
annual report on human rights
around the world mentions “disregard for the rule of law and
due process, denial of basic political rights including freedom
of speech and press, and widespread ofﬁcial corruption.”
On the Sullivan Foundation’s
website, former Ghanaian president John Kufuor has expressed
conﬁdence that the Malabo
summit will change the international community’s perception
of Equatorial Guinea.
Probably not. One of the headline-generating problems for
changing perceptions is President Obiang’s son, Teodore
Obiang Nguema, also known as
Teodorin (Little Teodor). He has
run afoul not only of the US Justice Department’s Kleptocracy
Asset Recovery Unit but also of
the French authorities.
On both sides of the Atlantic,
Teodorin aroused the authorities’ attention with spending
sprees of truly mind-boggling
scale, vastly out of proportion
with his $81,600 annual salary
as minister of forestry and agriculture in his father’s cabinet. In
Paris last September, authorities investigating “ill-gotten
gains” seized Teodorin’s collection of exotic and expensive cars
including two Bugattis, a Maserati, a Ferrari, a Porsche and a
Rolls Royce.
The French issued an international arrest warrant after he
ON THIS DAY AUGUST 10
Teodore Obiang, Africa’s longest-serving leader
failed to appear in court to answer questions about the origins
of his riches.
In the United States, the Justice Department has started
legal proceedings to seize Teodorin’s $30 million mansion in
Malibu on the coast of California, his $38 million Gulfstsream
jet and other possessions. The
department estimates that he
spent more than $300 million
buying property and assets on
four continents between 2000
and 2011.
Most of the money, according
to US authorities, came from
kickbacks from the export of
timber, the country’s secondmost important export commodity after oil. The discovery
of large oil reserves in the mid1990s catapulted Equatorial
Guinea into the league of oil-rich
nations. But the oil wealth has
not trickled down to many of the
country’s 700,000 inhabitants –
less than 2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product goes on public
health and even less on education.
All this makes Malabo an odd
place for a summit on Africa Rising and a group dedicated to
the memory of a human rights
champion an odd organization
to arrange it. Which on August
3 prompted a public call by the
Human Rights Foundation for
the event to be cancelled.
The idea is to shame invited
dignitaries into staying away.
The chances of that happening
look remote.
Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters
columnist. The views expressed
are his own
WHAT THE MAIL SAID
1948
25 years ago Wednesday August 10, 1987
Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
The government has cancelled all licences for importing obsolete
electrical equipment used for melting and obtaining scrap iron because they have been found to contain askarel, a toxic liquid acid.
Askarel is banned in the US and Europe but was being allowed into
Cyprus, which lacks the chemical plants that are capable of neutralising the acid.
1949
US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security
Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the
United States government, and replacing the Department of
War with the United States Department of Defence.
1964
The United Nations brokers another ceaseﬁre in Cyprus, defusing a growing military crisis and heading off the threat of
invasion by Turkey.
1990
The Nasa space probe Magellan arrives at Venus after a 15month journey from Earth and starts its mission to map the
global warming “hell-hole”.
2003
The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK – 38.5°C
(101.3°F) in Kent. It is the ﬁrst time the UK has recorded a
temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
35 years ago Friday August 10, 1977
The Cyprus government had decided to set up a Makarios III Foundation as a tribute to the late President of the Republic. The decision was taken at yesterday’s Council of Ministers meeting after
which it was announced that the Foundation will aid nationalist,
cultural, educationalist, medical and charitable purposes.
45 years ago Saturday August 10, 1967
Colonel Papadopoulos, Greek Minister to the Premier’s Ofﬁce ﬂies
back to Athens today after a three-day visit to Cyprus during which
he had private talks with President Makarios. It is believed that
the visit was mainly intended to coordinate future Athens-Nicosia
activities for the promotion of the Cyprus issue.
Friday, August 10, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL
12
Showbiz
Bob Hoskins has Parkinson’s disease
By Piya Sinha-Roy
The British veteran says he will now give up acting
VETERAN British actor
Bob Hoskins, the star of
Who Framed Roger Rabbit,
said this week he had been
diagnosed with Parkinson’s
disease and was retiring
from acting.
“Bob Hoskins wishes to
announce that he will be
retiring from acting, following his diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease last autumn.
He wishes to thank all the
great and brilliant people
he has worked with over
the years, and all of his fans
who have supported him
during a wonderful career,”
the actor’s London representatives said in a statement.
“Bob is now looking forward to his retirement
with his family, and would
greatly appreciate that his
privacy be respected at this
time.”
Hoskins, 69, started his
career in the 1970s on British television shows such as
Thick as Thieves and Rock
Follies of ‘77 before moving
into bigger ﬁlm roles, such
as 1980’s The Long Good
Friday and 1986’s Mona
Lisa, for which he earned
a best actor Oscar nomination and won a Golden
Globe award.
The Suffolk-born actor
became a staple face in the
British ﬁlm industry, often
playing Cockney-speaking
characters in both comedy
and drama genres with his
trademark gravelly voice.
His big Hollywood break
came in 1988 when he
played Eddie Valiant in Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, a
role for which he received a
Golden Globe nomination.
He then went on to play
roles in 1990’s Mermaids
and 1991’s Hook.
Hoskins’
most
recent
movie role was as one of the
eight dwarves in this year’s
dark fairytale Snow White
and the Huntsman, alongside Chris Hemsworth and
Kristen Stewart.
Parkinson’s
disease
is
an incurable, degenerative neurological disorder
whose sufferers include US
actor Michael J. Fox and
former heavyweight boxing
champion Muhammad Ali.
Sharon Osbourne set to
quit America’s Got Talent
Victoria
Beckham
‘failed to tip’
waitress
Dispute over son Jack
VICTORIA Beckham failed to
tip a waitress on a recent trip
to a Pizza Express restaurant.
The fashion designer dined at
a branch of the popular pizza
restaurant in Loughton, Essex, this week.
Despite being wealthy, she
apparently only paid the £115
bill in cash and left without
leaving a tip.
A supervisor at the restaurant told The Sun newspaper
about the experience: “Victoria came in on Monday night
with six children and David’s
mum.
“She paid £115 for dinner
in cash. She’s a very good
customer and comes here
regularly.
The member of staff continued: “She loves having bosco
salad - warm garlic mushrooms, baby mozzarella, avocado, roasted tomatoes, spinach, rocket, balsamic syrup,
honey and mustard dressing
with warm doughsticks.
“She’s had other salads
before, but never pizza - she
wouldn’t eat that.
They added: “She didn’t leave
a tip, she didn’t leave anything. I gave her the receipt
and she gave me the money
exactly, £115. But it doesn’t
matter.
“She’s a good customer and
is always nice. You give her
something, she always says
please and thank you.”
By Piya Sinha-Roy
AMERICA’S Got Talent
judge Sharon Osbourne said
this week that she is leaving
the television talent show,
blaming a dispute with
network NBC over her son
Jack.
Osbourne told the New
York Post she was quitting
because NBC dropped Jack
Osbourne from a different
reality show shortly after he
was diagnosed with multiple
sclerosis.
But she made clear in a
Twitter message that she
would stay on America’s Got
Talent for the remainder of
the current season, which
will resume after NBC ends
its coverage of the London
Olympics.
“Please don’t misunderstand. I love @nbcagt w/ all
my heart and will of course
ﬁnish out the season. It is
still one of the best shows
on tv,” Osbourne posted on
Twitter.
“I love @nbcagt @howiemandel @HowardStern &
@NickCannon. We have the
world’s best crew. And most
importantly, we have the
best talent on tv,” she said.
“Sharon has been a valuable
part of the NBC family. We
regret any misunderstanding and wish Jack well,” NBC
said in a statement.
America’s Got Talent is the
biggest summer show on US
television and Osbourne has
been on the judging panel
since 2007.
But she told the New York
Post that “it’s time to move
on.”
Osbourne said in the New
York Post story that her
son Jack, 26, was in line to
take part in NBC’s upcoming reality show Stars Earn
Stripes, which puts celebrities through military ﬁtness
training. But she said he was
let go two days before he
was due to start work on the
show, and shortly after he
was diagnosed with multiple
sclerosis.
“I just can’t be fake,” she
told the New York Post. “It’s
discrimination, and it was
badly handled.”
Producers have said Jack
Osbourne never signed a
contract for Stars Earn
Stripes.
Sharon Osbourne ﬁrst hinted at her intention to leave
America’s Got Talent in July
when she tweeted to fellow
judge Howard Stern “money
is not the reason I’m not returning to @nbcagt,” but did
not divulge details.
The comments appeared
to catch NBC off guard with
the network’s entertainment
chairman Robert Greenblatt
telling television journalists,
“We don’t even know what is
going on. It is probably much
ado about nothing.”
Lady Gaga is dating Vampire
Diaries actor Taylor Kinney
Sharon claims US TV network NBC dropped Jack from a different reality show shortly
after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
Gaga likes having sex on the beach
THE ‘You and I’ hitmaker
- who is dating Vampire
Diaries actor Taylor Kinney - still lives her life as a
“free spirit” and, despite the
attention her fame attracts,
she is still able to behave in
an “irresponsible” manner
because her friends are so
protective.
She told the new issue of
US Vogue magazine: “I like
to feel a little irresponsible
and act like I’m nineteen.
“I’m a complete free spirit,
so, even though you don’t
see it, I still ﬁnd time to have
sex at night on the beach
when no one’s around. Or
roll into a bar and get f***ed
up and dance with my top
off. It’s just that no one ever
sees that, because I have
great real friends who never
let me do it when I would
get caught.”
HATES TRUTH
Gaga also admitted she
hates “truth” and prefers
to retreat into a fantasy
world.
The 29-year-old musician -
who arrived at the Grammy
Awards in 2011 in an ‘egg’
and was depicted as a motorcycle on her Born This
Way album - said: “I hate
the truth so much that I
would prefer a giant dose of
bulls**t any day.”
And the ‘Bad Romance’
hitmaker particularly feels
like she ﬁts in well in Japan,
where the interview was
conducted.
She said: “I think ... it has
to do with the obsession
with fantasy. I think I sort of
just ﬁt right in over here.”
Paris Jackson
wants dad tattoo
PARIS Jackson wants to get
a tattoo in honour of her late
father Michael Jackson.
The 14-year-old aspiring
actress - the only daughter of
the singer - is contemplating
having the Roman numerals
of Michael’s August 29, 1958
birthday permanently etched
onto her back so her dad will
always be with her.
She tweeted: “i kinda want
to get August XXIX tatted on
my back.”
Earlier this week, Paris
revealed she had created a
shrine to the King of Pop who died of acute Propofol intoxication in June 2009 - from
magazine and newspaper clippings and artwork because
she is so proud of her father.
CYPRUS MAIL Friday, August 10, 2012
13
Health
Health
bites
Chemo ‘could aid cancer growth’
CHEMOTHERAPY can backﬁre by helping healthy body
cells to fuel treatment-resistant cancer and growth, research
has shown.
The surprise discovery suggests that many forms of cancer
treatment can actually make the disease tougher to tackle.
Almost all solid tumour cancers, such as those affecting the
breast, prostate, lung and bowel, ultimately stop responding to chemotherapy. Scientists now believe one reason why
could be the effect the treatment has on healthy connective
tissue cells called ﬁbroblasts.
DNA-damaging cancer drugs cause ﬁbroblasts to pump
out growth molecules into the tumour micro-environment
belonging to the WNT family of proteins, the study found.
High levels of one called WNT16B helps cancer cells to grow,
invade surrounding tissue, and resist chemo treatment.
Working in the laboratory, scientists observed an up to
30-fold increase in WNT production in response to chemotherapy. “Cancer cells inside the body live in a very complex
environment or neighbourhood,” said lead scientist Dr
Peter Nelson, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Centre in Seattle, US. “Where the tumour cell resides and
who its neighbours are inﬂuence its response and resistance
to therapy.” Blocking the treatment response of ﬁbroblasts
could improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy, say the
scientists whose ﬁndings are reported in the journal Nature
Medicine.
Half of heart patients don’t take meds
JUST HALF of people who are given a prescription to
prevent heart disease continue to get their medications
reﬁlled over time, according to a new review of several
studies.
And among people who have already had a heart attack,
one out of every three fails to continue getting their prescription reﬁlled.
“Even if these estimates were half as great, the cost of
nonadherence is substantial,” the group, led by Dr. David
Wald at Queen Mary, University of London, writes.
The researchers estimate in their report in the American
Journal of Medicine that 130,000 people die each year
because they don’t adhere to their prescriptions.
The researchers collected the results from 20 studies that
suggested the rate at which people continue taking the
drugs ranges from 30 to 80 per cent.
The studies looked at seven medications, including
aspirin, blood pressure drugs, and cholesterol-lowering
statins, typically intended for life-long use.
Of the more than 376,000 people in the studies, about
275,000 were given a prescription to prevent heart disease
while the other 101,000 were already diagnosed with
heart disease.
More American kids
given antipsychotics
All of the patients were followed for at least 12 months.
Overall, 57 per cent of people continued to reﬁll their prescriptions for the drugs.
Lung spots not always dangerous
PATIENTS learning they have a “spot” on their lung often
assume they have cancer, according to a new study - but
that’s usually not the case.
Researchers say doctors could do more to help patients
understand what happens when a “spot,” or nodule, is
found on a CT scan or chest x-ray, and what it means for
their long-term health.
“On a CT (scan) we see them all - all the tiny little details
and all the tiny nodules on the lung, and 99 per cent of
those are nothing, are not cancer,” said Dr. Heidi Roberts,
a radiologist and lung cancer specialist from Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.
Non-cancerous nodules can be a result of scarring in the
lungs, an infection or an inﬂammatory response initiated
by the immune system, researchers said.
According to the American Cancer Society, about 226,000
new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed in 2012 and
160,000 people will die of the disease.
Recent recommendations from the American College of
Chest Physicians and the American Society of Clinical
Oncology call for annual screening using CT scans for
current and former heavy smokers age 55 to 74.
But another group, the government-backed U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, says the evidence is too limited
to recommend for or against screening.
Drinking coffee
has been
found to ease
Parkinson’s
symptoms
For some of these kids, taking these can be setting
themselves up for metabolic problems in the future
ANTIPSYCHOTIC drugs are
prescribed during almost one
in three of all visits kids and
teens make to psychiatrists
in the United States, according to a new study, up from
about one in eleven during
the 1990s.
Much of that increase, researchers say, is from doctors
prescribing the drugs for disruptive behaviours, such as
attention deﬁcit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). There
are, however, no antipsychotics approved by the US Food
and Drug Administration to
treat those disorders in kids.
“They’re
approved
for
schizophrenia and bipolar
disorder and irritability with
autism. None of them are approved for use with ADHD,”
said Dr. Mark Olfson, the
study’s lead author and a
professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University in
New York.
Olfson and his colleagues,
who published their work
in the Archives of General
Psychiatry, found that for
kids and teens, roughly 90
per cent of the antipsychotic
prescriptions written during
ofﬁce visits between 2005 and
2009 were “off label,” which
means the drugs are being
prescribed for something
other than for what they’re
approved.
While the study cannot
say whether the prescriptions were unnecessary, the
effectiveness
of
antipsychotic drugs for disorders
like ADHD is uncertain. The
drugs, however, have been
linked to weight gain and
diabetes.
Last year, a large study of
children, from the University
of Massachusetts, found that
kids who took antipsychotic
Most of the time the drugs are given ‘off label’
drugs were four times more
likely to develop diabetes
than their peers who were
not taking the medications.
In September, an FDA advisory board also raised concerns about the drugs and
urged the agency to monitor
weight gain and other metabolic diseases in children
taking antipsychotics.
“For some of these kids,
taking these can be setting
themselves up for metabolic
problems in the future,” said
Olfson.
For their study, Olfson and
his colleagues used information on almost half a million
doctors’ visits in the US be-
tween 1993 and 2009.
Overall, antipsychotic prescriptions increased across
all age groups - including
adults. For kids and teens,
however, the increase was
more rapid.
The number of kids getting
antipsychotic prescriptions
increased from 0.24 for every
100 people between 1993 and
1998, to 1.83 for every 100 people between 2005 and 2009.
For teens, that number increased from 0.78 for every
100 people in the 1990s to
3.76 in the 2000s.
“There is very little question as to whether these
drugs are being prescribed
in kids much more than they
used to,” said Olfson.
Those numbers, however,
only represent the number of
people going to doctors’ ofﬁces - not clinics, community
health centres or other medical centres.
Also, the researchers cannot say how long patients
were on the drugs, or whether any of the prescriptions
were from repeat visits by
the same patient.
Overall, Olfson told Reuters Health that he hopes
parents ask more questions
about antipsychotics and
whether there are any alternative treatments.
He said there are psychosocial interventions such as
parent management training
that have been shown to reduce aggressive and disruptive behaviours in kids, but
added that those interventions are more expensive and
take more time.
“Perhaps if they were more
available, we wouldn’t have
as much use of these antipsychotic medications,” Olfson said.
Caffeine may provide
relief for Parkinson’s
A NEW, small study found people with Parkinson’s disease
who took caffeine pills saw
slight but noticeable improvements in movement problems
related to the condition.
The ﬁndings warrant further
study, Canadian researchers said. And there are still
questions - such as if patients
would develop a caffeine tolerance, eventually blunting
the beneﬁts of coffee or caffeine pills.
“It’s a bit too early to say,
‘Everybody should be drinking coffee,’” said lead researcher Dr. Ronald Postuma,
from McGill University in
Montreal.
“Does it really make a difference over years of Parkinson’s disease? I don’t think we
know.”
Still, he said, caffeine is generally safe, so it could be worth
trying for some patients with
Parkinson’s who aren’t doing
great and also have trouble
with sleepiness.
About 50,000 to 60,000 people in the United States are
diagnosed with Parkinson’s
disease every year, according to the National Parkinson
Foundation. Typical symptoms include shaking and
trouble with movement and
coordination.
There’s no cure for the disease, but some medications
can make symptoms less
severe. For the new study,
Postuma and his colleagues
randomly assigned 61 people
with Parkinson’s and in their
mid-60s, on average, to six
weeks of caffeine pills or identical drug-free placebo pills.
Participants in the caffeine
group took 100 milligrams
when they woke up and again
after lunch for the ﬁrst three
weeks, then were bumped up
to 200 milligrams twice a day
for the rest of the study.
In comparison, a cup of
brewed coffee typically has
about 100 milligrams of caffeine and a 12-ounce soda
has between 30 and 50 milligrams.
After the study period, people taking caffeine didn’t report a clear improvement in
sleepiness. But that group did
improve on an overall scale
of Parkinson’s symptoms, including on measures of muscle rigidity and other movement problems.
The average beneﬁt was a
decrease of about ﬁve points
on the disease rating scale, according to ﬁndings published
in Neurology. Postuma said a
typical patient who’s had Parkinson’s for a few years would
have a score of 30 to 40.
“Five points on the scale
is enough to say on average,
‘Yeah, I feel a bit better, things
are a little bit easier,’” he told
Reuters Health.
“It’s not a massive difference,” he added - but even a
small change “can have a real
effect on people’s lives.”
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What’s on
films
(K) All
Audiences
(12/15/18) No admittance to Under-12s/
15s/ 18s
(N/A) Not Available
NICOSIA
The Raven (15)
K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8
and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall
of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 8 and
10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Ted (15)
K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30,
8.05 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex,
Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at
5.30, 8.05 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm
and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
The Dark Knight Rises (12)
K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.15
and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2)
at 8pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of
Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.15 and
10.15pm, weekends also at
1.30pm, and (Screen 2) at 8pm,
weekends also at 11.30am and
3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K)
K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in
Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex
(Screen 3) (in 3D, in English)
at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen
1) (in 2D, in Greek) at 8.15pm;
K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in 2D, in
Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex,
Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1)
(in 3D, in Greek) at 8.15pm,
weekends also at 11.30am;
K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus
(Screen 3) (in 3D, in English)
at 5.25pm, weekends also at
11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm;
K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus
(Screen 4) (in 2D, in Greek)
at 5.25pm, weekends also at
11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm.
Tel: 7777-8383
CINEMA WEBSITES: K-Cineplex: http://kcineplex.com, Friends of the Cinema Society: http://www.ofk.org.cy
Summer Open-Air Marathon
(tonight: Le Mepris)
(in French, with Greek subtitles)
Konstantia Open-Air Cinema,
Wednesday to Sunday at 9pm.
Tel: 22-348203
LIMASSOL
The Raven (15)
Rio 4 at 6.20, 8.20 and
10.20pm, weekends also
at 4.30pm. Tel: 25-871410;
K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 8 and
10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Ted (15)
Rio 2 at 6.20, 8.20 and
10.20pm, weekends also at
4.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-
Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8.05
and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383
K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in 2D, in
Greek) at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
The Dark Knight Rises (12)
Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10.30pm,
weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel:
25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1)
at 5.15 and 10.15pm, and (Screen
2) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383
LARNACA
The Dictator (15)
Rio 6 at 10.10pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3)
at 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
The Lucky One (K)
Rio 6 at 6.30 and 8.20pm,
weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel:
25-871410
The Amazing Spider-Man (12)
Rio 3 at 8 and 10.30pm,
weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel:
25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen
3) at 7.45pm. Tel: 7777-8383
The Dictator (15)
K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8 and
10.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of
Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.25pm.
Tel: 7777-8383
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K)
Rio 3 (in 3D, in Greek), weekdays
only at 6.20pm. Rio 5 (in 2D,
in Greek) at 6.30, 8.20 and
10.10pm, weekends also
at 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410;
K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in
Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex
(Screen 1) (in 3D, in English) at
8.15pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in
3D, in English) at 5.25pm.
The Amazing Spider-Man (12)
K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45
and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall
of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.45pm.
Tel: 7777-8383
The Raven (15)
K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8
and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Ted (15)
K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30,
8.05 and 10.30pm. Tel: 77778383
The Dark Knight Rises (12)
K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.15
and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at
8pm. Tel: 7777-8383
The Dictator (15)
K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8 and
10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
The Amazing Spider-Man (12)
K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45
and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K)
K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in
Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex
(Screen 3) (in 3D, in English)
at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen
1) (in 2D, in Greek) at 8.15pm;
K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in 2D, in
Greek) at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383
PAPHOS
The Raven (15)
Rio 4 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and
10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000
Ted (15)
Rio 7 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and
10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000
The Dark Knight Rises (12)
Rio 1 at 4.45, 7.45 and
10.45pm. Tel: 26-207000
The Dictator (15)
Rio 3 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and
10pm. Tel: 26-207000
The Lucky One (K)
Rio 2 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and
10pm. Tel: 26-207000
The Amazing Spider-Man (12)
Rio 6 at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends at 8.10 and 10.40pm. Tel:
26-207000
Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K)
Rio 5 (in 2D, in Greek) at 6, 8
and 10pm, weekends at 4.30,
6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Rio 6
(in 3D, in English) at 6pm,
weekends at 4.30 and 6.20pm.
Tel: 26-207000
The Dictator
listings
Today
Music
Hot Nuts
Rock’n’Roll the Chas & Dave way.
August 10. Frog & Toad, Coral Bay,
Paphos. Showtime 9pm. €5.95
including choice of meals. Reservations essential - Tel: 26-343876
Mysterion Live
Music festival with DJ STR followed
classic rock band. August 10. Galata
Square, Nicosia. 8pm. Free Entrance
- Food and drinks on sale
Master Tempo
Well-known rap group from Greece
perform live. August 10. Waves
Club, Georgiou A 1004, Limassol.
11.30pm. €20/25. A strict door
policy will be implemented Tel: 99109191
Dave Mothersole
Legend and pioneer of UK’s Deep
house and tech-house scene on the
decks. August 10. Mare Lounge Club,
Makenzie Beach, Larnaca. 10pm.
€12/15. Tel: 99775266
Theatre
My Friend, Lefterakis
Theatro Skala presents the Greek theatrical comedy by Alekos Sakellarios.
August 10-12. Larnaca Medieval Fort,
Kamil Kenan. 9pm. In Greek. €7/12.
Tel: 24-652800
Other Events
SummerLand Festival 2012
Two days full of electronic dance
music. There will be a stand on the
festival ground where you can buy
all kinds of official SummerLand
merchandise and part of the money
raised will go towards to raising funds
for the anti-HIV cause of Dance4Life .
August 10-11. Finikoudes Promenade, Athinon Avenue, Larnaca. 4pm.
€40/60. Tel: 70-088007
Tomorrow
Paschalis Terzis
Popular Greek singer live in concert.
August 11. Tasos Markou Stadium,
Paralimni. 9pm. €20/Free for children
under 10. Tel: 70-002737
C: Real
Popular pop rock band from Greece
perform live along with DJ Leonid
Rudenko on the decks. August 11.
Dolce Club, Amathus Avenue 138,
Ayios Tychonas, Limassol. 11pm. Tel:
25-314900
Gemini
Celebrating one year of DIRTY events,
Dirty Basslines presents, for the
first time in Cyprus British electronic
music producer and DJ. August 11.
Guaba Beach Bar, Amathous Avenue,
Agios Tychonas, Limassol
Ongoing
Dance
Music
Despina Vandi and Elli Kokkinou
Two of the biggest names in the Greek
music scene, return to Cyprus for a
unique concert. August 11. Pelendri
Community Stadium, Limassol. 9pm.
€20. Tel: 22-372115/25-552503
Sixth Euro-Mediterranean Traditional Dance Festival
Five countries showcase their traditional and folklore dances and costumes. August 7-10. Ayia Gyla and
Zakaki, Limassol. 7.30pm or 8.30pm.
Free. Tel: 25-878744/25-340784
Maniera Cypria: Lemesos, Fabula,
Historia, Memoria
Exhibition dedicated to ancient
findings. Until August 12. Evagoras
Lanitis Centre, Lanitis Carob Mill,
Limassol. 5pm-9pm daily except
Mondays. Tel: 25-342123
I Will follow you to the end of the
World - Immigrating for Love
Exhibition by visual artist Lia Lapithi
influenced the story of Queen Caterina Cornaro. Until September 2. The
Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17
Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia,
Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel:
22-661475
Dimitris Mihlis
Solo painting exhibition. Until August
30. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45
Stadiou Street, Larnaca. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday:11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm.
Tel: 24-621109
Diaspora
Exhibition by visual artist Nikos
Kourossis. Until September 2. The
Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17
Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia,
Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel:
22-661475
Nicosia International Airport
Solo photography exhibition by
Andreas Efstathiou. Until August
30. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus,
Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm.
Tel: 22-343670
The Area is Sacred
Solo art exhibition by Panagiotis
Mina. Until September 13. 50-1
Gallery, Limassol. Monday-Friday:
11am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Saturday:
11am-1pm. Tel: 99-522977
Exhibition
Twice a Stranger
Multimedia exhibition about forced
migration and population exchange.
Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, Temporary Exhibitions Hall, 15-17 Hippocrates Street,
Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Opening hours:
Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-4.30pm. Tel:
22-661475/ 22-671997
Summer Breeze
Group mixed media exhibition. Until
September 15. Apocalypse Gallery,
30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel:
22-30000/150
Summer 2012
Group exhibition of paintings and
sculptures. Until September 30.
Morfi Gallery, 84 Agkyras St, Limas-
For a full guide to the week’s events and regular meetings, make sure you get a copy of the Sunday Mail
sol. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm.
Tuesday-Friday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25378733. www.morfi.org
Nicosia: Topographies of Memory:
From Ermou Street to the Buffer
Zone
Exhibition by Anita Bakshi reconstructing Ermou marketplace –
using maps that were created from
memories and narratives provided
by shopkeepers who once worked or
lived in the area. Until September 30.
Home for Cooperation, 28 Markou
Drakou, opposite Ledra Palace Hotel
in the UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia. Open
Monday-Sunday: 10am-6pm. Tel:
+90 542 8506681/22-445740
www.home4cooperation.info/www.
ahdr.info
Our Lady of Nicosia
Exhibition about the church of
Phaneromeni and its relics. Until September 30. Bank of Cyprus Cultural
Foundation, 96-90 Phaneromenis
Street, old Nicosia. Monday-Sunday:
10am-7pm. Tel: 80-000800
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Something for the weekend
Fancy a night out with the guys? How
about a hen’s night before the big day?
Whatever it is you’re looking for, the Sex
and Erotica Festival 2012 is opening its
doors to anyone above the age of 18 who
is looking for an exploration into this saucy
taboo and the diverse elements of sex.
Rest assured, this is miles beyond a sleazy
red district cabaret or even a four-star gentleman’s club; the festival has a purpose.
Being the ﬁrst event of its kind on the island
in recent years, it aims to open the gates to
a potentially more liberal community and
21st century mindset.
No doubt, there are areas of the venue
where one may pursue a retro-esque pole
dance or provocative striptease. Things
may also come to be close and personal,
g g
as there will be hired individuals mingling
within the crowd. Through this part of the
venue, club music will primarily play.. The
hat this
organisers wish to stress, however, that
is not all there is to the night.
nations
Shows will be put on with all combinations
ns as
of genders so there are no restrictions
to sexual orientation.
ted
The other side of the room is dedicated
ageto the more cultural and artistic engagement with sex. There are phallic and
nude sculptures and scriptures; not to
a movie
mention antiques and novelty erotica
posters in a hall towards the back. Morerary
over, this part will include a small library
a’s
of erotica books, including Madonna’s
own sex book on display. Now long out
ost
of print, it has become one of the most
e
searched for out-of-print books in the
m’s
world, according to BookFinder.com’s
annual survey on the topic.
“We wanted to show that there is an artistic side to sex,” stresses the owner of the
ation
Secrets Freedom Club: the organisation
which is putting up the festival.
pe to
“Tastefully” is how the organisers hope
g back
portray everything. How about going
to basics? A pornographic ﬁlm from the
Looking Ahead
Other Events
Russo-Cypriot offerings
As sad as it may sound, September
is just around the corner and there
is no running from it.
It’s the middle of August, meaning
there is little time left to take your
day trips to the beach, lay by the
pool or enjoy the BBQ. September
brings the return of school, cooler
weather (hopefully) and a host of
events to ﬁll up your social calendar.
Over the last six years, the Cyprus
Russia Gala has established itself as
one of the premier cultural events
of the year, every September.
It’s a starry event that has lured
some of the biggest names in
Cyprus and Greece along with a
sprinkling of the Muscovite elite.
An evening where cultural, political and business ﬁgures can
mingle, exchange ideas and gather
in the landscaped gardens of the
Presidential Palace for a charity
gala like no other.
While the €150 price tag may have
Above: Madonna’s explicit 1992 coffee-table book Sex is one of the most sought after
out-of-print titles in the US, according to an annual survey
1940s will be projected
pr
as a delineation of the sexual spectrum in timeline
form.
If that’s not retrosp
retrospective enough for
you, there is also a collection of dug-up
artifacts (pottery slabs)
s
depicting coital
acts.
Secrets Free
Freedom Club has put on
events before, such as foam
part
parties and themed drag
sho
shows; having even done
a th
theatrical monologue
of a prostitute at the
Cyp
Cyprus International Fair
in Nic
Nicosia for international
AIDS day.
In pre
previous years, 35 different artists were invited to
the club for organised events.
Imagine th
the magnitude of the
toda as close to 50 will
festival today,
performing
be performing.
Last February, the club had even put
up a carnival with the theme derived
you running for the hills, this gala
evening of music, coupled with ﬁne
fare, will allow patrons to enjoy a
night of good entertainment, knowing that they are helping someone
in need. As usual, the entire proceeds will be donated to the leading
Cypriot charity, Radiomarathon
Foundation, which helps children
with special needs and their families.
ces
Colourful performances
introduced by star Russian
entand Cypriot TV presentward
ers will include the award
winning Greek pop
princess Elena Pao
parizou, the star who
became a household
name when she represented Greece in
the Eurovision Song
Contest 2005, giving
the country its only win
th
in contest history with
er
the song ‘My Number
mOne’. For her performance at the gala, she
will be accompanied by
the up and coming band
Melisses.
o
From pop princess to
rina
classic royalty, Katerina
st
Mina one of the ﬁnest
from Priscilla Queen of the Desert; members of the original West End cast had even
attended the event.
Salsa nights have been also held at the
club as the organisers successfully concluded that sex can be merged with any of
the aspects and activities of our daily lives.
Dance is irrevocably an outlet for sexual
expression; none more so than the lusty
choreographies of salsa.
Groups may have to reserve to attend the
festival - there is room for a whopping 8001,000 (of age) guests - and it’s set to last
until 4am.
Sex & Erotica Festival
Festival featuring performers, dancers, shows,
striptease, erotic exhibits, DJs and more. August
25. Secrets Freedom Club, 67 Artemidos
Avenue, Larnaca. 11pm. €15 plus 1 free drink.
Admission is restricted to persons over 18. Tel:
99-557433. www.secretsfreedomclub.com
sopranos of her generation, will also
be making an appearance. Mina
has performed in some of the most
prestigious Opera Houses and Concert Halls in the world and is a prize
winner in two prestigious international singing competitions. Mina is
also the winner of the 2008 Madame
Figaro Magazine Singer-of-the-Year
Awards.
Russians wil
will no doubt be looking
forward to seeing rock pioneer
Evgeny M
Margulis and his band.
Educat
Educated in medicine; he
mad
made a career in music
and his hobby is creative
writ
writing. A legend in his
own right, He was the bass
guit
guitarist of one of the
mo
most famous Soviet rock
ban
bands, Mashina Vremeni
(Ru
(Russian for Time Machi
chine).
The band is recognised as
a ‘patr
‘patriarch’ of Russian rock
music and achieved the cult
statu
status among several generat
erations. While originally
ins
inspired by The Beatles,
M
Mashina Vremeni has
de
developed a unique
vo
voice throughout the
yea
years, often changing its
sty
style, playing classic rock,
By Elias Melas
This Weekend
Other Events
Ready to bust a move?
It’s the ace of all decks and the
platinum of all records. These are
the Olympic Games for B-boyers’
and hip-hop dancers alike.
“Raw circles is one of the rawest dance events in the world”,
the organisers announce on the
event’s website. “If you come,
you’ll witness some of the best
dancers the world has to offer,
a uniquely intense atmosphere
and experience culture in its true
form”.
Raw Circles is a Pan-European
competition where hip-hop dancers with DJ collaboration battle it
out in duos; much like a real life
Step up. Over 15 countries attend
RC per year as there are qualiﬁers through numerous EU states
which ﬁsh out contestants for
the (annual) International Raw
Circles.
The event is reaching out to the
island on Sunday, as Paranormal
Activities Crew is organising
the qualiﬁers. The venue for the
event is Eurogym in Ayios Dometios, Nicosia.
Workshops for B-boying and
DJ-ing will be led throughout the
day by members from the international panel of judges of the
competition.
Raw Circles Qualifiers
Qualifiers for the 2vs2 break dancing battle
event for Raw Circles International. The
winners will win tickets for the raw circles
Portugal Europe qualifiers and then the International Raw
nal
Circles final
m in
in Belgium
gust
2013. August
gym,
12. Eurogym,
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56 Kyriakou
ios
Matsi, Ayios
Dometios,,
Nicosia.
20.
6pm. €7/20.
scyrawcirclescyundprus@soundm
cancer.com
By Elias Melas
Above: Russian rock legend Evgeny Margulis and inset Greek pop
star Elena Paparizou
blues, rock-n-roll, and the so-called
bard (similar to beatnik folk singers
in the USA) music. Today it remains one of the oldest active rock
bands in Russia, but the quintet
has been drifting apart lately, with
Margulis recently announcing his
departure from Mashina Vremeni.
Last, but not least, Russian fourpiece and operatic sensation Kvatro
will take to the stage to round off
the evening of high entertainment.
Sixth Cyprus-Russia Gala
An evening of music and entertainment, and
a unique opportunity to appreciate the spirit of
Russia and hospitality of Cyprus. September
8. Presidential Palace Gardens, Nicosia. 7pm.
€150 per person. All proceeds will be donated to
the Radiomarathon Foundation for Children with
Special Needs. Tel: 22-867400. pressoffice@
presidency.gov.cy. www.tickethour.com.cy
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Film
The Dictator
SUMMARIES
The Raven
(See page opposite)
Our rating:
Ted
As a child, John Bennett
(Mark Wahlberg) makes a
Christmas miracle happen by
bringing to life his one and
only friend – his teddy bear.
Ted the talking teddy (voice of
Seth MacFarlane) becomes a
celebrity but remains faithful
to John, his best friend
forever. Boy and bear grow up
together – but the time comes
when grown-up John has to
choose between staying with
his girlfriend Lori (Mila Kunis)
or holding on to his friendship
with his crude and extremely
inappropriate teddy bear.
Also starring Giovanni Ribisi.
Directed by Seth MacFarlane.
(Comedy, 106 mins.)
Our rating:
The Dark Knight Rises
It’s been eight years since
Batman (Christian Bale)
vanished into the night,
turning, in that instant, from
hero to fugitive. Assuming the
The Dark Knight Rises
blame for the death of D.A.
Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight
sacrificed everything for
what he and Commissioner
Gordon both hoped was
the greater good. For a time
the lie worked, as criminal
activity in Gotham City was
crushed under the weight of
the anti-crime Dent Act – but
everything will change with
the arrival of Selina (Anne
Hathaway), a cunning cat
burglar with a mysterious
agenda. Far more dangerous,
however, is the emergence
of Bane (Tom Hardy), a
masked terrorist whose
ruthless plans for Gotham
drive Bruce Wayne out of
his self-imposed exile. But
even if he dons the cape
and cowl again, Batman
may be no match for Bane.
Also starring Michael Caine,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion
Cotillard and Gary Oldman.
Directed by Christopher
Nolan. (Comic-book action
drama, 164 mins.)
Our rating:
The Dictator
General Admiral Aladeen
(Sacha Baron Cohen),
the dictator of Wadiya, is
developing nuclear weapons,
and the UN delivers an
ultimatum for him to address
the General Assembly
personally or face the world’s
wrath. The demented Dictator
and his henchman Tamir (Ben
Kingsley) head for New York,
where a plot to assassinate
him and turn Wadiya into a
democracy so its oil can be
exploited – by those inside
the country as well as some
outside – is in the making.
But when an anti-Aladeen
protester (Anna Faris)
mistakes the now beardless
Aladeen for a fellow traveller,
the Dictator’s complicated
predicament becomes even
more complicated. Also
starring Jason Mantzoukas.
Directed by Larry Charles.
(Comedy, 83 mins.)
Our rating:
The Lucky One
After a fierce battle in Iraq,
US Marine Logan Thibault
(Zac Efron) sees a photo of
a pretty young blonde in the
rubble and goes to pick it
up – a move that saves his
life. He carries the photo
everywhere, like a good-luck
charm, and survives his third
tour of duty. Once back in the
US, he vows to find the girl
in the photo, and soon tracks
her down: her name is Beth
(Taylor Schilling), she lives
with her grandmother Nana
(Blythe Danner) and young
son Ben, and is grieving
for her brother who’s been
missing in action for a year,
also in Iraq. With Logan’s
arrival, Beth’s life begins to
change for the better – but
her ex Keith (Jay R. Ferguson)
is hovering over her, and
threatening to destroy her
newfound stability. Also
starring Riley Thomas
Stewart. Directed by Scott
Hicks. (Drama, 101 mins.)
Our rating:
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Lucky One
Peter Parker (Andrew
Garfield) is an outcast highschooler who was abandoned
by his parents as a boy,
leaving him to be raised
by his Uncle Ben (Martin
Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally
Field). He’s trying to figure
out who he is, meanwhile
also finding his way with his
first high-school crush Gwen
Stacy (Emma Stone). Peter
finds a mysterious briefcase
that belonged to his father,
and begins a quest to solve
the mystery of his parents’
disappearance – leading him
directly to Oscorp and the lab
of Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys
Ifans), his father’s former
partner. Along the way he
also inadvertently acquires
extraordinary powers –
and, as Spider-Man, is set
on a collision course with
Connors, who transforms
himself into ‘The Lizard’.
Also starring Denis Leary and
Campbell Scott. Directed by
Marc Webb. In 3D. (Comicbook action, 136 mins.)
Our rating:
Ice Age 4: Continental
Drift
Scrat’s nutty pursuit of the
cursed acorn, which he’s
been after since the dawn
of time, has world-changing
consequences – causing a
continental cataclysm that
creates the Earth as we know
it and triggers the greatest
adventure of all for Manny
the mammoth (voiced by Ray
Romano), Diego the sabertoothed tiger (voiced by Denis
Leary) and Sid the sloth
(voiced by John Leguizamo).
In the wake of these
upheavals, Sid reunites with
his cantankerous Granny,
and the herd encounters a
ragtag menagerie of seafaring
pirates determined to stop
them from returning home.
Also with the voices of Peter
Dinklage and Nick Frost.
Directed by Steve Martino
and Mike Thurmeier. In 3D.
(Kids’ cartoon, 94 mins.)
Our rating:
The Last Metro
Paris, during the Nazi
Occupation. When Lucas
Steiner (Heinz Bennent),
the Jewish owner of the
Montparnasse Theatre,
is forced into hiding, his
gentile wife and lead actress
Marion (Catherine Deneuve)
takes over. She hires the
womanising actor Bernard
Granger (Gerard Depardieu)
for the lead in their next
production, the aptly titled
play Disappearance, which
is to be directed from
Lucas’ own notes –
but rehearsals
take place in
a climate of
fear and
persecution.
Directed by
Francois
Truffaut in
1980. In
Ratings key
Unforgettable
Unmissable
Recommendable
Watchable
Regrettable
Abominable
The Ra
day, August 10, 2012
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Television
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Sport
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29-32
NEW FILMS
The Raven
Directed by: James
McTeigue
Starring: John Cusack, Luke
Evans, Alice Eve
US 2012, 110 mins.
Showing from today at the
K-Cineplex and K-Cineplex
(Mall of Cyprus) in Nicosia,
the Rio and K-Cineplex in
Limassol, the K-Cineplex in
Larnaca and the Rio in Paphos.
The Raven
THE PLOT
French, with Greek subtitles.
(Drama, 131 mins.)
aven
Our rating: N/A
When a mother and daughter are found murdered in
19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke
Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a
ﬁctional murder described in
gory detail in the local newspaper – part of a collection
of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe (John
Cusack). But even as Poe is
questioned by police, another grisly murder occurs, also
inspired by a popular Poe
story. Realising that a serial
killer is on the loose using
Poe’s writings as the backdrop for his bloody rampage,
Fields enlists the author’s
help in stopping the attacks
– but the stakes soon become
even higher, and the inventor
of the detective story calls on
his own powers of deduction
to try to solve the case.
WHAT THE CRITICS SAID
Pro/Mixed:
“Literary journalism and
celebrity are the subjects of this satirical
nightmare ﬁctionalising the last
days of Edgar
Allan Poe, who
was
found
before
his
death in 1849
roaming
the streets
of
Baltimore in a
state
of
delirium
… John
Cusack is wittily cast as the
washed-up Poe. He is on
the skids, always broke and
hungover; the city’s newspaper will no longer publish
his literary reviews and the
glory days of his celebrated
macabre tales are a distant
memory. Then a serial killer
and No 1 Poe fan starts rampaging through the city, reenacting the plots of classic
stories such as The Murders
in the Rue Morgue and The
Pit and the Pendulum, daring
Poe to catch him and write a
late masterpiece about it all.
“There’s a bit of Saw and
Se7en here, as well as Vincent
Price in Theatre of Blood;
Stephen King’s Misery and
Updike’s Bech Noir spring
to mind, and it’s a nice touch
to give Baltimore a serial
killer over a century before
Dr Hannibal Lecter was employed by the Johns Hopkins
Medical Centre in that city. It
runs out of steam in the ﬁnal
10 minutes, but there’s some
gruesome drama and Cusack
is on decent form.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)
Mixed:
“Quoth the raven: ‘Eh.’
“Showcasing
John
Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe on
the trail of a copycat serial
killer, the strangely dull new
ﬁlm The Raven squanders
a promising scenario while
half-burying Cusack’s mercurial skills as a leading man
with the wiles of a character
actor…
“McTeigue directed V for
Vendetta and, like that picture, The Raven is crowded
with incident, yet isn’t very
exciting or ﬂuid as cinema.
The works of Poe are naturals for the screen, and their
beauty lies in their raw intensity, adaptable for lowdown
pulp purposes. The Roger
Corman-produced Poe adaptations may not have been
faithful to the originals, but
they worked their own rough
magic. The notion in The
Raven of Poe chasing after
his unwanted protégé before
he kills again is a good start.
But there’s no real kick or
shiver to the events, nor to
the ultimate revelation…
“As with many ﬁne actors,
Cusack walks a thin line between droll understatement
and practiced difﬁdence.
McTeigue treats him like a
star, and Cusack has his moments. But too many individual scenes requiring sweep
and propulsion – a masked
ball, the murderer running
loose backstage at a theatre – never get out of second
gear. And however many digitally created ravens appear
on screen in The Raven, it’s
one too many. Even for a Poe
movie.”
Michael Phillips, Chicago
Tribune (US)
Anti:
“A thin, bearded John Cusack makes a reasonable
Poe, suitably febrile and mercurial – given to outbursts of
verbal and physical aggression, though the low-ﬂown
dialogue seldom sounds in
period and never sounds like
even a cracked genius. The
low-wattage supporting cast,
though, suggest a project
that was downgraded during development: busy Luke
Evans (The Three Musketeers, Immortals) doesn’t
hold up the cop/sidekick
role, pretty Alice Eve is just
a token (ﬁctional) pretty
woman to be emperilled and
Brendan Gleeson just shows
up as the girl’s blustering
father (the sort of dolt who
won’t cancel his masked ball
just because of a few murders). From the ﬁrst crashing chords of the disastrously
inappropriate rock score to
the frankly dumb punchline,
this consistently misses the
mark – mostly thanks to haphazard scriptwriting which
suggests a wikipedia level of
Poe scholarship and a failure
to grasp the concept of the
whodunit.”
Kim
Newman,
Empire
(UK)
“A grimly preposterous serial-killer thriller set in 19thcentury Baltimore, this riff
on the ﬁnal days of the author of The Tell-Tale Heart
and other masterpieces of
the macabre might qualify
as literary desecration if it
weren’t so silly.
“Cusack’s Poe – conceived
here as close cousin to Robert Downey Jr’s [Sherlock]
Holmes — is a talented wreck
whose best days are behind
him but who can still rear
up and spit in the eye of the
philistines, of which there
are many in 1849 Baltimore
… A depraved murderer is
stalking the city, killing citizens in ways that copycat
the author’s famous stories.
A gruesome early highlight
is the longtime Poe rival who
gets the pit-and-pendulum
treatment in disgusting detail. ‘But I’m only a critic!’ he
shrieks before expiring. I felt
much the same way…
“The Raven has been directed by James McTeigue (V for
Vendetta) with dark style and
at galloping speed, neither of
which disguise the fact that
the movie often doesn’t make
a lick of sense. If it were content to lighten up and admit
it was trash, there might be
some fun to be had, but the
dialogue mistakes the ﬂorid
for the eloquent. (‘God gave
him a spark of genius and
quenched it with misery,’
someone says about Poe.)
The jolts are effective in their
Pavlovian way; it’s everything
else that lets you down.
“Sadly, the over-ripe notion
of Edgar Allan Poe, action
hero, never takes off. Cusack
wants to give a serious performance – historically inaccurate goatee and all – in a
movie that isn’t built for it
… What The Raven lacks in
narrative invention it makes
up for by pushing the audience’s face in blood, guts,
and hacked ﬂesh. You get
that the ﬁlmmakers are going for a modern take on
Poe’s Gothic vision, but their
approach has no poetry and
barely any prose.”
Ty Burr, Boston Globe (US)
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RETIRED DISABLED ENGLISH
GENTLEMAN REQUIRES a
helper/carer to visit UK on short
trips with him (Paphos area).
Telephone: mobile 99894139
landline 26621343.
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SECRETARY WANTED full/part
time job. Language: English
Russian Greek preferable Expert in Microsoft Ofﬁce & computers. Hard working responsible, long term. Email your CV
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A PHILIPPINA woman is looking for part-time or full-time
job, to do household chores
or clean ofﬁces, (Nicosia only)
stay-out (because married).
For info call 96480275.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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CLAIRVOYANT / MEDIUM,
readings, emotional and spiritual healing, classes and short
courses. Accurate, honest and
conﬁdential service by an experienced English spiritualist
medium, based in the Paphos
area but willing to travel islandwide Tel: 97801472 / www.yvebrooks.org
STAGE ONE THEATRE, PAPHOS, is holding AUDITIONS
at 7pm on 13 & 18 September for DISPOSING OF
THE BODY. Director Penny
Meakins, performances March
2013. Audition pieces from
Peter Sandwith on 99984035.
Auditionees must advise their
intention to audition in advance
KRISHNAMURTI
committee
having dialogues on living in
an insane world (video and
discussions ) Tel 99008901,
99445978
TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE
GREEK ORTHODOX: The
European Union Parliament is
pressuring the Turkish Government to restore Saint Sophia
Cathedral from a museum into
a Greek Orthodox Church.
However the Parliament has
set a requirement of 1,000,000
signatures on a petition before
it makes this conversation a
prerequisite for Turkey’s admission into the European Union. You are requested to cast
your vote by logging on to a
link at www.hagiasophiablog.
com. This is an opportunity for
each of you to have an impact
on world events. Get as many
Greek Orthodox, other Orthodox and Christian friends of
yours to sign the petition and
make history.
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS CYPRUS
Is drink costing you more than
just money? AA could be the
answer.
Meeting at the following locations/days. Call to speak to an
AA member.
Ayia Napa Monday 97798043
Larnaca Tuesday (Polish spk)
96616589 Thursday 24645523
/ 99259264
Limassol Tuesday / Wednesday
/ Friday / Saturday 25368265 /
99559322
Nicosia
Wednesday/Sunday
99013596
Paphos Tuesday / Thursday / Saturday 99916331 /
99399240
Details of meetings are available on www.aa-europe.net
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DOES
SOMEONE
ELSE’S
DRINKING CAUSE YOU A
PROBLEM? Al - Anon is for
family and friends of those
with a drinking problem. Call
Nicosia 99 877205 for more information and details of meetings.
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HEALTH & FITNESS
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PROFESSIONAL AROMATHERAPY & fully body relaxing
massage, at your home or
hotel for men & women – Paphos area Call Ulrica on tel :
96853681 to book an appointment
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FULL BODY MASSAGE + relaxing massage for men and
women in classy surroundings
in Kato Paphos – privacy &
discretion. We offer you professional mausseurs, appointments necessary 1 Hour for 35
euro, call 96637039 - honest
people
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STRESSCONTROL.
Aromatherapy MASSAGE. Area
Hilton NICOSIA. More info on
97696795
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EIGHTSMILEYS OFFERS SUP
(STAND UP PADDLE) LESSONS, RENTALS & SALES.
A great way to release tension
and stress at the same time
Nicosia - tel: 22 818583
fax: 22 676385
exercise your body, made for
all ages and genders. Find
out more information on www.
sup.com.cy facebook: Eightsmileys Kitesurfsup or call on
99355191
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CLINICAL PILATES. Personalised Clinical Pilates by
Physiotherapists in Nicosia.
Individual assessment and supervision of exercises. “Clinical pilates” is a modiﬁed form
of therapeutic exercise used
by physiotherapists to assist in
the rehabilitation and prevention of musculoskeletal injury
especially lower back pain,
sacro-iliac pain and neck pain.
More info on 22446988.
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PERSONAL
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NTN-LOVEDATE.COM Best way
to ﬁnd a lover/partner. Chat
online with single persons,
browse and rate proﬁles with
photos and date with other
members. Best luck in your
search, we hope you meet
plenty of interesting people.
Use the link below to register
now. It is FREE http://www.ntnlovedate.com
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60 YEAR OLD ENGLISHMAN,
ﬁt, healthy and working, would
like to meet an English speaking, non-smoking lady for socialising, outings etc.Tel or text
96503261
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AUSTRIAN ENGINEER, 50
years, searching for a nice women. Mobile: 00491726293462
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LESSONS
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ART DESIGN &CONSTRUCTION. September - Limassol.
Intensive course Drawing and
Painting Tuesday nights. Art
&Architecture History Thursday nights. All levels. Portfolio
development. UCAS application support. AutoCAD courses. BTEC Level 3 Construction
Diploma courses. Registering
now! 99409829 info@idclimassol.org
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DO YOU WANT TO LEARN CHINESE? Experienced private
teacher available for Chinese
lessons in Cyprus. €30 per
lesson. Call for more details.
96864438
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PRIVATE TUITION - Experienced, UK-qualiﬁed teacher
and tutor offers full / part time
private home tuition in Maths,
Limassol - tel: 25 761117
fax: 25 761141
English, Science, Geography, History, Business Studies
and Economics, from KS3 to
iGCSE, AS and A2 levels. Telephone 26642781 or 99318796.
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SERVICES
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PRIVATE ENGLISH TUITION –
UK university graduate (postgraduate 1975), native English speaker, Limassol-based,
offers part-time tuition at all
secondary school levels, up
to and including IGCSE/O-levels. For further details phone
99312567
SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial
and domestic fridges and
freezers, ice machines, cool
rooms, supply and ﬁt air-cons
VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602
Limassol.
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KEEP YOUR HOME COOLER
THIS SUMMER by having
Windowﬁlm professionally ﬁtted. Stops upto 86% of heat
from entering your home!
Windowﬁlm increases privacy,
blocks harmful uv-rays which
cause fading, reduces glare
and saves energy costs on
air-con. Also keeps your home
warmer in winter. Call Ian on
99979671
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HOME SOLUTIONS we do pergolas, ranch style fencing,
chain link fencing, decking
and all general maintenance
work on properties at competitive prices. For free no obligation quotation ring Tyrone on
99177037 covering Paphos,
Polis and Pissouri areas.
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EXPERIENCED
PAINTER
at very reasonable prices!
Decorative coatings, house
painting, sprits and graphiato, varnishing, damp proofing and protection from humidity for walls and ceilings.
Free estimates! Call Harry on
97768020
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PROFESSIONAL
UPHOLSTERY CLEANING, also carpets, rugs and mattresses.
Special offers now available.
For a quote call Rickys Cleaning Services on 99131044 (all
areas)
rickyscleaningservices@gmail.com
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K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We
manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors
and roller systems. We also do
repairs. For a FREE QUOTE
please
contact
Phone:
99119582 Website: www.kdﬂyscreens.com
KEEP YOUR HOME COOLER
THIS SUMMER by having
Paphos - tel: 26 911383
fax: 26221049
Windowﬁlm professionally ﬁtted. Stops up to 86% of heat
from entering your home!
Windowﬁlm increases privacy,
blocks harmful uv-rays which
cause fading, reduces glare
and saves energy costs on
air-con. Also keeps your home
warmer in winter. Call Ian on
99979671
WE UNDERTAKE REFURBISHING of houses or holiday
homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing,
house painting, garden work.
For information call JIMMYS:
96587137, MELIS: 96547879
JURIDICAL SERVICES Contracts, sales agreements, conveyancing, wills, administration
of estates, general litigation,
power of attorney, land registry matters, companies, translations, immigration etc... And
all legal matters. Call: Natalia
Michealidou – jurist, Paphos
Tel: 26 933159 – 99523231 (ofﬁce hours)
FOR SALE
MISCELLANEOUS
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SALE OF HOUSEHOLD, GARDEN AND GARAGE ITEMS.
Amazing prices, Saturday
18th. August 9am -4pm. 7 Alonion Street, Spitali, Limassol.
[15 minutes north of Limassol]
Follow the balloons and arrows
in the village. Tel. 25452303
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NEW GAZEBO STILL IN BOX
€100, calor gas heater almost
new €40, HP computer monitor 17 inch €20, Logitec webcam and headphones with
software €10, Phillips voip with
software €20 . Tel 99191956
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2 BEDROOM ATLAS MOBILE HOME for sale . Granite
kitchen surfaces, tiled ﬂoors in
W.C., Shower room and kitchen REDUCED TO €7,900. Tel.
99416918 or <sandymathie@
hotmail.com>
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FURNITURE
HOUSEHOLD
ITEMS: Childs cot / mattress
€50 play table and stools €50
Bunk Bed set with ladder/ mattress €100 child’s bike €40
Child’s easy chairs €30 Easel €20 gas BBQ 80 vacuum
cleaner Miele €80 Abstract
canvasses from €10 ENGOMI
22355790
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CLOTHES
STOCKS
AND
SHOP FITTINGS FOR SALE.
Excellent women’s brands for
sale including Italian, Spanish and French clothes and
shoes. Also women’s dummies and modern wall ﬁttings
(clothes rails.) Selling at very
low prices for clearance. Tel:
99-168943
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Larnaca - tel: 24 652243
fax: 24 659982
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Employment
Opportunities
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Employment
Miscellaneous
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Pets
18
Lessons
18
Health & Fitness
18
Personal
18
Services
18
For Sale
Miscellaneous
18
For Sale Land/
Property Business
19
For Sale
Motor vehicles
19
Wanted
19
To Let Nicosia
19
To Let Limassol
22
To Let Larnaca
22
To Let Paphos
23
To Let Protaras,
Ayia Napa, Paralimni
24
To Let Athens
-Land For Sale Bulgaria -For Sale Limassol
24
For Sale Nicosia
24
For Sale Larnaca
24
For Sale Paphos
24
For Sale Ayia Napa
24
For Sale Famagusta
Protaras
-For Sale Athens
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abbreviations
bdrm
c/h
a/c
s/pool
f/f
apt
pm
pw
sw
nw
st
rd
p/s
c/l
swb
r/cass
e/w
bedroom
central heating
air conditioning
swimming pool
fully furnished
apartment
per month
per week
south west
north west
street
road
power steering
central locking
short wheel base
radio cassette
electric windows
Please note tel nos.
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22 = Nicosia
23 = Paralimni/Protaras
24 = Larnaca
25 = Limassol
26 = Paphos
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CYPRUS MAIL Friday, August 10, 2012
Advertiser
FOR SALE B.P./LAND
FOR SALE BUSINESS/
PROPERTY/LAND
NEWSAGENT’S STORE in prime
spot in Pernera area (Protaras).
Very low rent. Ideal for two partners, two shifts, all year round
trade, all stock included, all accounts can be seen (till readings). Only serious callers. Tel:
99529149.
BAKERY BUSINESS FOR SALE
based in St Lazaros Square
in Larnaca. Fully equipped &
guaranteed customers. Contact 95115916
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ONE ACRE (3 donums) land for
sale Arakapas area Limassol
district, with title deeds. Sloping
ground with stream and 8 foot
waterfall at lower boundary. Naturally growing trees. €40.000
sandymathie@hotmail.com or
99416918
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FOR SALE B.P./LAND
FOR SALE B.P./LAND
TIMI, plots, a few selected available, sea view, near the 2 golf
courses, Venus rock and airport. 60% Building eu 115,000.
Half registration fees till the
2.6.12. Tel. 99 621914
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LARNACA,
ALETHRIKO,
PLOTS FOR SALE, 525 sqm,
90% building factor, near highway Limassol-Larnaca, 5 min
from airport, quiet residential
area, eu 125,000. Half registration fees till the 2.6.12. Tel. 99
621914
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RESIDENTIAL PIECE OF LAND
of 985sqm in the village of
Pareklisia. Partial sea views,
near to electricity and water
supplies. € 135.000 D.C. (Cyprus) Real Estate Tel: 99 330
908
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FOR SALE PLOT in the centre of
Lefkara Village 670sqm, high
build factor, near all shops, and
amenities € 210.000 negotiable
Tel: 99 330 908
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PLOT LOCATED in Mesa Geitonia, Limassol 617sqm. 100%
build. Ideal for the construction
of apartment building or 1 or 2
large houses. Price reduced to
€ 360.000 tel. 99 330 908 www.
cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0170
SELEC Fencing & Decking Specialist
For all your Garden and Security Fencing
♦ Quality approved workmanship
♦ 15 years experience + guaranteed work
♦ English workers
♦ also garden gates
♦ sheds
♦ chain link fencing
♦ free estimates
♦ all types of fencing & decking
Tel. SELEC fencing 99176557
FOR SALE OR RENT - Kato Paphos – full moon bar, fully furnished and equipped, large ﬂat
screen TV’s + projector, ﬁts 120
people comfortably, incredible
opportunity for ready business!
Please call: 99493579
FOR SALE factory with showroom,
1050m2, in private land, in Kokkinotrimithia industrial zone. Tel.
99849195.
BUSINESS TO RENT
FOR RENT : SHOP 180sqm’s in
Tala - Paphos, main road. Available now. Rent negotiable. Call
26652409
WANTED TO RENT
WANTED TO RENT
FLAT OR HOUSE TO RENT, 2-3
bedrooms, veranda/terrace or
garden, prefer furnished, SW
of Nicosia (in approx area
Lakadamia to Kapedes and
Kalo Chorio) alan.tye@birdlifecyprus.org.cy,
22455072,
99089083.
FOR SALE
MOTOR VEHICLES
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FOR SALE Mercedes SLK 230.
Full MOT, low mileage, automatic, burgundy colour. Genuine reason for sale. Offer price
€10,000 Call 99951393.
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For information
call 99781943
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MINI 1, 2005, red, manual, all
specs, radio/cd/ac, MOT / tax,
20,000 miles from new, price :
€7000 call 99096902 – Polis
PROPERTY
TO LET
NICOSIA
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ACROPOLIS LUXURY FLAT;
3 bedrooms, master with ensuite; bathroom, laundry room,
fully ﬁtted kitchen, large sitting/
dining room, everyday room,
two large verandas, guest
w/c, c/h, a/c, broadband internet/TV/satellite connection,
covered parking. Furnished/
unfurnished (€1,200/€1,000)
22312255, 99557457.
FOR RENT Location: Prevezis
13 Nicosia (near Cleopatra
Hotel). Flat: 2 bed rooms - 90
sq m (the ﬂat is in a new building in the centre and can also
FOR SALE
CHILDCARE
From a Cypriot - with 20
years experience in a
kindergarten - looking
after infants and
children at her house
in Nicosia
FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES
FOR SALE BMW 320i CONVERTIBLE, 2008, colour
platinum bronze, 18’’ alloys,
being leather, cruise control,
front and rear parking sesonrs, lights-rain sensors, wind
deﬂector, 45000 km, excellent
condition, €30,900. For information call 99405122.
Office furniture and equipment.
Excellent quality, new
condition. Modern Hi-Tech
design. Including 2 work
stations, conference room,
Manager Desk, cupboards,
Switchboard and more..
Must See!!!
Tel: 25817684
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be used as an ofﬁce). For info
tel: 99763804 Andreas Panayi
FOR RENT 3-bedroom luxury
apartment over 200 sq.m. Very
spacious living area extending
to a large veranda overlooking the green of the river area.
Bathrooms all marble (one ensuite), modern kitchen. Fully
air-conditioned, with underﬂoor heating, garage for 2 cars
and large store. Situated in the
exclusive gated development
of J&P Glastonos, one of the
oldest classy residential areas
of Nicosia. Call 99630320
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TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENT
(113 sq. metres) on Second
ﬂoor (No lift) in Aglandja, (Nicosia). Fitted kitchen: fridge, gas
cooker, built-in electric oven.
Bedrooms: built- in bookcases
Dining-room: dining-table with
8 chairs Sitting-room: Two
3-seater sofas, One 2-seater
sofa and One Armchair with
coffee table. Bathroom c/w
toilet Guest’s toilet For further
info: 99342225 Mrs Philippou
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English-Painter & Decorator
Fully Qualified 30 years’
Experience
SUMMER OFFER 30% OFF
ALL AREAS
• External & Internal painting
• Damp Damage Repairs
• Spritze Repairs
• Free Estimates + very clean work
• All areas. All types of woodwork
stained and preserved
• All work guaranteed
Tel. Tony on 99176557
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LUXURY
UPPER
HOUSE
180 sq.m at Ayios Dometios. Furnished, 3 bedrooms,
laundry room, w/m, s/h c/h,
fully air-conditioned, 5 ceiling
funs, walled kitchen, refrigerator, curtains, parking place.
Tel.99443412
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HOUSE FOR RENT: 5 bedroom
detached house, French ambassador and American heart
institute area, easy access to
city centre, schools, hospitals,
all amenities and motorway,
in quiet cul-de-sac, on high
ground with views of Nicosia
and Pentadaktylos. 3 Baths,
garage for 2 cars with automatic doors, bbq, ﬁreplace, oil
central heating, airconditioning, fully furnished. €2000 Pm,
tel 99 621914
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3 BEDROOM FLAT completely renovated in Strovolos.
135sqm, quite family owned
building recently painted. c/h,
a/c, storage room. Stainless
steel appliances, washing machine. Sky satellite tv. € 650/
month Call 99 330 908.
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LYCAVITOS 300sq.m., 3 bdrm
ofﬁce lux. €1500, Dasoupolis 2
bdrm., wooden ﬂoors modern
design €750, Acropolis 3 bdrm
f/f., modern furniture, luxury
€1000, Hilton 2 bdrm., wooden
ﬂoors, modern building €850,
Mak/ssa whole ﬂoor ﬂat with/
without furniture €1200, villas
Mak/ssa-Strovolos with pool
and garden. Costas Markides
Tel:
22378898/99464764,
Reg. No. 487, E16.
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FLATS FOR RENT studio strovolos 250,1 bdrm ag.antonios
380,kennedy
furnished
440,engomi 490 Ag.andreas
490,dasoupolis 450.makarios
av.500,strovolos 400 2bdrm furnished lykavitos 600 acropolis
just built 650,anthoupolis 430
3bdrm acropolis 300,engomi
500,Hilton furnished 600 4bdrm
ag.andreas fully equipped
800. POSPORIDES ESTATES
99474839 99646822 REG.338
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ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT,
in small quiet building, new,
very spacious, fully furnished
and air conditioned. Very good
location between Strovolos
and Engomi, close to The European University (Cyprus College) and all amenities. Covered parking. Rent €495/m.
Please call 99695382
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TO LET 3 bdrm ﬂat Kaimakli area
near Frederic. Tel. 99606665.
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LUXURY HOUSES:
1. 5 bedrs detached house,
550sq.m, built in 2 big plots
of land, big garden with grass,
big swimming pool with extra
fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big
reception areas with marble
ﬂoor, ﬁre place and bar, big
kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with ﬁre
place, maid’s room, ﬂoor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with
en suite bathroom and shower,
big bathroom for the other 3
bedrooms and extra shower
in the 5th bedroom. Available
end of July - Strovolos €2500
(H5ST10001-R), (photos in the
website).
2. 3 bedrs luxury ground ﬂoor
renovated
semi
detached
house,210sq.m, with central
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heating, air conditions, solid
parquet ﬂoor, ﬁre place, big
kitchen with all the electric appliances, 2 wc curtains, big
veranda, big patio on the back
with bbq area, 2 covered parkings in a quiet neighborhood
close to the Embassies –Engomi €900 (H3ENG0002-R),
(photos in the website)
3. 4 bedr + separate ofﬁce space
+ maid’s room luxury detached
house, split level, big open space
sitting areas,400sq.m,a/c for
hot and cold in all the rooms,
NICELY MODERN FURNISHED,
swimming pool, big verandas, 2
covered parking, in a very quiet
area near Lidl – Latsia €2500
(H4LAT0008-R), (photos in the
website).
4. 3 bedr luxry detached house
with 1 bedr ﬂat in the basement,
ﬂoor heating with gass a/c
units, big kitchen with electrical
appliances, 4 wc, 3 bathrooms,
big garden with small pebbles,
2 covered parking, in a quiet
area in a dead end. Can be
rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE in August – Makedonitissa €1700 (H4MAK0027-R),
(photos in the website).
5. 4 bedr+ attic room with shower
and wc luxury detached house
with separate maid’s room,
central heating, a/c, separate
ofﬁce room, sitting and dining
areas, big kitchen with dining room and big family room
opening to the big garden with
grass and bbq area, 2 covered parking, behind General
ﬂooring shop – Makedonitissa
€3000 (H4MAK0025-R), (Photos on the website).
6. 3 bedr + big attic room which
can be used as a bedroom/ofﬁce, detached house, central
heating, full a/c,3wc, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining
room, separate kitchen with all
the electrical appliances, small
garden and patio with bbq
area, covered parking, near
Apollonion hospital. – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R),
TO LET NICOSIA
(photos in the website)
7. 4 bedrs new luxury detached
house, 330sq.m, central heating, full ac, 2 covered parking’s, big kitchen with sitting
room and all expensive electrical appliances, blinds on
the windows, lighting ﬁxtures,
2 bedrs with en suite shower
and wc, main bathroom with
jacuzzi,3rd bedroom with only
shower ,swimming pool with
wooden deck around, covered
patio with nice covered bbq
area, opposite a green area in
a very quiet area – Strovolos
€2600 (H4ST10040-R), (photos
in the website).
8. 4 bedr luxury detached house,
350sq.m,
central
heating,
full a/c, ofﬁce space, separate maid’s room, big storage
room, solid parquet ﬂoor in the
bedrooms, 2 covered parking,
swimming pool, garden with
trees, veranda with bbq area,
big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, big sitting
and dining areas, very near to
English School, off Athalassas
Avenue €2300 (H4ST10036-R),
(photos on the website).
9. 3 bedr ground ﬂoor semi detached house in very good
condition with storage heaters, 5a/c,2wc, big kitchen with
cooker and oven, big sitting
and dining room, big front veranda, 2 covered parking in
a very quiet neighbourhood
close to Alpha Mega - Parissinos €550 (H3PA2001-R), (photos in the website).
10. 4 bedr new luxury ﬁnished
top quality detached house,
290sq.m, central heating, full
a/c, master bedroom with ensuite shower/jacuzzi, guest
bedroom with shower, main
bathroom with jacuzzi, 4wc,
fully expensive furnished with
3 LCD televisions, kitchen with
very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered
patio with bbq area,2 covered
parking’s, alarm system, pres-
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sure system, - Strovolos €3000
(H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the
website).
11. 4 bedr luxury detached
house built in 3 plots of land.
Separate maid’s room outside
the house, big basement with
playroom, ofﬁce and guest
room with separate entrance.
The house has big sitting and
dining room, separate family room, separate kitchen, big
bedrooms, internal elevator,
central heating, full a/c, big
yard with tiles, covered kiosk
and trees, 2 covered parking,
in a quiet area in a dead end
opposite Cineplex – Strovolos
€3000 (H4STI0042-R), (photos
in the website).
12. 5 bedr new luxury ﬁnished
detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the
bedrooms with shower and
wc and can be used as guest
room,4 wc, solid parquet ﬂoor
all the house, separate family room with ﬁre place, big
sitting room, separate dining room, big kitchen with
breakfast area, big outside
patio with tiles and bbq area,2
covered parking, electrical
appliances in the kitchen,
in a very quiet neighborhood close to CYBC station.
Can be rented furnished or
not. – Platy Aglantzias €3000
(H5PAG0001-R), (Photos on
the website).
13. 3 bedr detached house with
extra room for ofﬁce,250sq.m,
central heating independent, 4a/c, big renovated,
kitchen with cooker and
oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet ﬂoor
and ﬁre place,1bathroom,1
shower,2wc, 2 covered parking, big verandas surrounded
by trees and bushes off 28th
October street - Makedonitissa €1300 (H4STI0043-R),
(photos in the website).
14. 3 bedr luxury house, nicely
modern furnished with big sitting and dining areas with bar,
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central heating, full a/c, big
ﬁtted kitchen with TV room,
ofﬁce space, patio area with
bbq, covered parking, 3wc,
solid parquet ﬂoor in bedrooms and granite in the sitting areas, near the MEGA TV
station – Archangelos €1300
(H3AR0002-R), (photos in the
website).
15. 3 bedr luxury semi detached
house with central heating
independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet ﬂoor, ﬁre place, electrical appliances in the kitchen,
curtains, in a very quiet neighbourhood in the area near Falcon school – Strovolos €1500
(H3STI012-R), (photos in the
website).
16. 3 bedr + ofﬁce space +separate maid’s room detached
luxury house, 450sq.m, recently renovated, with central
heating, full a/c, big sitting
and dining area with parquet
ﬂoor, TV room with ﬁre place,
big kitchen with breakfast area
and ﬁtted cooker and oven, 4
wc, roller blinds on all windows, very big verandas and
yard, covered parking, in a
very quiet neighborhood in the
centre of Makedonitissa opposite a playground. - €1400
(H4MAK0003-R), (photos in
the website).
17. 4 bedrs new luxury detached
house, all the bedrooms very
big and all with big bathroom/
shower, sitting room upstairs,
attic room with shower and
wc, ofﬁce space/maid’ s room
with shower and wc, central
heating, full AC,450sq.m,
big sitting and dining areas,
big kitchen with sitting area
and ﬁtted cooker and oven,6
wc, 2 covered parking’s, big
yard with tiles and garden
with grass, bbq area in a very
quiet neighbourhood near the
CYBC ( RIK) station and near
a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R),
(photos in the website).
18. New luxury 4 bedr + very
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at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the
Company.
1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the
claim amount, basis and origination date.
2. The deadline for submitting claims is 23rd November 2012
3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will
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5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus
Dated: March 22nd, 2012.
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TO LET NICOSIA
big 40sq.m attic room with
shower and wc semi detached
house, 300 sq.m, central heating, full air condition, big sitting and dining areas, 4 wc,
2 showers,1 bathroom, solar
heater, pressure system, covered parking, big back yard
with tiles, blinds, cooker, oven
and, refrigerator in the kitchen,
in a very quiet neighborhood
and area – Agios Dometios
€1500 (H4ADO0004-R). (photos in the website).
19. 4 bedr semi detached house
with central heating, 4 a/c, 3
wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m,
small yard, bbq area, FULLY
FURNISHED, off Costantinoupoleos street near French
Ambassador residence – Strovolos €900 (H4STI0043-R),
(photos in the website).
20. 4 bedr + 2 separate
rooms with showers and wc
(120sq.m) detached house
with big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining
area and family room with
ﬁre place, very big swimming
pool with bbq area, covered
patio, garden with grass,
central heating in 4 zones,
full a/c, 6wc, 5 covered parking’s, pressure system, opposite Apoel training ﬁeld.
Can be rented furnished or
not. AVAILABLE END OF AUGUST – Archangellos €4000
(H4AR0007-R), (photos in the
website).
21. 4 bedrs luxury detached villa
built in 5 plots of land, 600sq.,
central Heating, full a/c, very
big garden with grass, big
swimming pool 5 x 13, bar
with bbq area, ofﬁce space, TV
room with ﬁre place, marble
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ﬂoor, all the bedrooms en suite
shower/bathroom, separate
self contained apartment for
the maid, 2 covered parking in
a nice area with easy access
to the Limassol road. Can be
rented also partially furnished
– Latsia €5000(H4LAT0007-R),
(photos in the website).
22. 4 bedr luxury detached
house, separate maid’s room,
600 sq.m, central heating, full
a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening
on to the garden, big kitchen
with electrical appliances, built
in 2 big plots of land with huge
garden with grass, swimming
pool, 2 covered parking, in a
quiet neighbourhood close to
Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3700 (H4PA20005-R),
(photos on the website).
23. 4 bedr luxury detached
house with expensive ﬁnishes,
ofﬁce space, separate maid’s
room, 3 of the bedrooms with
en suite shower/bathroom,
ﬂoor heating, full air condition, white marble ﬂoor all the
house, ﬁre place, lighting ﬁxtures, big kitchen with all the
electrical appliances, swimming pool with bbq area, small
garden,2 covered parking’s in
a nice neighbourhood with
expensive houses near KEMA
building – Platy Aglantzias
€3500 (H4PAG0004-R), (photos in the website).
For many more properties
with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated
daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225/96422225/96422226,
www.landtouristestates.com
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LUXURY FLATS:
1. 2 bedr luxury fully renovated
apartment, storage heaters, 3
a/c, separate big kitchen, big
sitting dining room, fully modern furnished and equipped
with solid parquet ﬂoor off
Prodromou street – Engomi
€600 (A2ENG0010-R), (photos in the website).
2. 2 bedr new luxury modern,
2 storey apartment with solid
parquet ﬂoor, ﬂoor heating
independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, expensive ﬁtted
electrical appliances, blinds,
covered veranda with very
nice view, in a quiet neighbourhood on a modern design building. AVAILABLE 1st
of August – Aglantzia €750
(A2AGZ0021-R), (photos on
the website).
3. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting room,
separate kitchen with electrical appliances, central heating independent with diesel,2
a/c, aluminum shutters in the
bedrooms, covered veranda,
covered parking, storage
room, on a small quiet building in a quiet neighborhood
– Agios Dometios €450 (A1ADO0004-R), (photos in the
website).
4. 3 bedr luxury PENTHOUSE
apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, ofﬁce space,
very big veranda 100sq.m
with nice view and bbq area
with bar, NICELY MODERN
FURNISHED, 2 bathrooms,
2 storage rooms, covered
parking, in a small building
near Hilton park and Ippokration hospital – Engomi €1000
TO LET NICOSIA
(A3ENG0023-R), (photos in
the website).
6. 1 bedr luxury fully furnished
apartment, 60sq.m, with 2 a/c
for hot and cold, spacious,
covered parking, on a small
building near Alpha Mega supermarket – Dasoupolis €450
(A1DAS0001-R), (photos in
the website).
7. 2 bedr brand new luxury ﬁnished apartment on a small
modern design building with
2 bathrooms, a/c for hot and
cold (Mitsubishi), storage heaters can be installed if needed,
electrical shutters in the bedrooms, pressure system, water serculation system, solar,
electrical appliances in the
kitchen, blinds, covered veranda, 2 COVERED PARKING,
storage room, near the centre
and near trafﬁc lights of Honda
showroom. – Agioi Omologites €700 (A2AOM0007-R)
8. 1 bedr, fully furnished and
equipped apartment, 50sq.m,
2 a/c for hot and cold, covered
verandah, covered parking,
ice view off Makarios Avenue
between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop – Nicosia Centre
€460 (A1NIC0006-R), (photos
in the website).
9. 3 bedr new luxury penthouse
apartment on the last ﬂoor
of a 3 storey building, CH
ind, full a/c, pressure system, cooker and oven in the
kitchen, blinds in the living
room, 2 bathrooms, 130sq.m,
big veranda with view, covered parking, 200m opposite
Akropolis park. Acropolis
€850(A3ACS0039-R), (photos
on the website).
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10. 2 bedr new luxury ﬁnished
apartment with a/c for hot and
cold, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda,2
bathrooms,2wc,covered parking, storage room, secured entrance building in a very quiet
neighborhood – Aglantzia €650
(A2AGZ0022-R), (photos in the
website)
11. 1 bedr luxury spacious
apartment with big sitting and
dining room, storage heaters,
2 a/c, cooker, oven, dishwasher, washing machine/dryer, refrigerator in the kitchen,2 wc,
1 bathroom, blinds, big covered veranda, storage room,
parking, big common SWIMMING pool. Price includes
common expenses – Latsia
€500 (A1LAT0004-R), (photos
in the website).
12. 2 bedrs big luxury ﬂat, 110sq.
m+big covered veranda, CH
ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the
kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, parquet and
granite ﬂoor, big bedrooms,
big sitting and dining room,
covered parking, intercom,
on a small building with 6
ﬂats only near Coca Cola factory 2 km from McDonalds in
Egomi – Agios Dometios €550
(A2ADO0013-R), (photos in
the website).
13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment
with nice view, 100sq.m, big
sitting & dining area, big separate kitchen with cooker and
oven, big covered verandah,
2 wc, storage heaters, 2 a/c,
electric shutters in the bedrooms, covered parking and
storage room on the 11th ﬂoor
of a small building with 6 ﬂats
only 200 meters for Akropo-
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lis park and opposite a small
neighborhood park – Dasoupolis €550 (A2DAS0001-R),
(photos in the website).
14.
3
bedr
apartment,
140sq.m,central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen
with cooker and oven in the
kitchen, blinds, covered parking off Kennedy and Markora
street walking distance to the
centre – Nicosia Centre €550
(A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the
website).
15. 3 bedr +separate maid”s
room (with shower and wc)
& luxury apartment with central heating independent, full
a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big
separate kitchen with breakfast area and electrical appliances, big sitting and dining
area with solid parquet ﬂoor,
big covered veranda, blinds,
alarm system, 2 parking, in
a quiet area off Makarios Avenue near Hilton – Nicosia
Centre €1100 (A3NIC0023-R),
(photos in the website).
16. New luxury 2 bedr apartment
with central heating independent, full ac, fully modern nicely
furnished and equipped, big
covered verandah, 2 wc, covered parking opposite Hilton,
off Makarios Avenue close to
the centre – Lykavitos €650
(A2LYK0003-R), (photos in the
website)
17. Brand new quality ﬁnished 2
storey Penthouse apartment
with cozy nicely modern fully
furnished apartment, 150sq.m
unique design, a/c for hot and
cold in all the ﬂat, 2wc, big verandas around the ﬂat, private
elevator with lock for the ﬂat ,
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in the centre of Makedonitissa
of 28th October street – €1200
(A2MAK0004-R), (photos in the
website).
18. 4 bedr luxury ﬂoor
apartment,250sq.m,
ofﬁce,
maid’s room, central heating ind, full a/c,2 showers, 1
bathroom, 3wc, parquet ﬂoor,
big kitchen with cooker and
oven, big sitting area, roller
blinds on all the windows,
big veranda on a small building off Athalasas Avenue near
Alpha Mega supermarket and
Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis
€1100 (A4DAS002-R), (photos
on the website)
3 bedr luxury spacious ﬂoor
apartment on the 4th ﬂoor of
award winning building,200sq.
m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full
built in air conditions, lighting
ﬁxtures, curtains and blinds
on all windows, big spacious
living room with ﬁre place, big
kitchen with double cooker,
oven and microwave and
breakfast area, double glazed
windows, all the bedrooms
with en suite shower/bath,
big satellite dish with sky
decoder,2 covered parking
and storage room, close to
American embassy and other
amenities – Engomi €1600
(A3ENG0025-R), (photos in
the website).
20. 3 bedr new luxury ﬁnished
penthouse ﬂoor apartment,
240sq.m, big sitting and dining area(can ﬁt 2 sitting rooms
and dining table), big separate kitchen with cooker, oven,
microwave, laundry room and
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breakfast area, big bedrooms,
3wc, 2 bathrooms, storage
heaters, full a/c, blinds on all
windows, pressure system,
covered parking, big covered veranda, off Iphigenia’s
street near Ministry of Education on a small building
with 7 ﬂats only. Available in
September – Acropolis €1300
(A3ACS0019-R), (photos in
the website).
21. 2 bedr new luxury apartment
with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and
dining room, separate kitchen
with cooker and oven, blinds
on all windows, covered veranda, solar heater, pressure
system, covered parking, storage room, on a small building
in a quiet neighborhood next
to a playground, near Central
ofﬁces of Cyta and Laiki Head
quarters – Dasoupolis €600
(A2DAS0018-R), (photos in
the website).
22. 4 bedr new luxury ﬁnished
apartment, 160sq.m+35sq.m
covered veranda, big sitting
and dining room, NICELY
MODERN FURNISHED, Daikin
air-conditions for hot and cold
in all the rooms, 2 bedrs with
en suite shower/wc, 4wc, 2
covered parking, in a small
modern building off Makarios Avenue in a quiet neighbourhood. Available in August – Nicosia Center €1400
(A4NIC0001-R), (photos in the
website).
23. New luxury spacious 3 bedr
quality apartment, 165sq.m+
big covered verandah, separate ﬂoor heating, full a/c, 3 wc,
TO LET NICOSIA
2 bathrooms (one en suite),
solid parquet ﬂoor all the ﬂat,
big sitting and dining area
(can ﬁt 2 sitting rooms and
dining table), electrical appliances in the kitchen which
has a breakfast area,2 covered parking, storage room in
a very quiet green neighbourhood near the centre and Ag.
Andreas - AVAILABLE in AUGUST– Nicosia Center €1450
(A3NIC0004-R), (photos in the
website).
24. New luxury 2 bedr apartment, open plan kitchen, 3 a/c
for hot and cold, blinds on all
the windows, nicely expensive
full furnished with real leather
sofas, double bed, big dining
table, LCD 32”, satellite dish
with receiver, internet, very big
bedrooms with big and many
wardrobes, covered parking
and storage room, in a quiet
area near BMH – Aglantzia
€620 (A2AGZ0001-R), (photos
in the website).
25. 2 bedr new luxury ﬁnished
and FURNISHED ground ﬂoor
apartment, 80sq.m +120sq.m
veranda and garden, separate
ﬂoor heating, full a/c, 2wc,
aluminum shutters outside
the windows, pressure system, fully expensively ﬁtted
with electrical appliances in
the kitchen, big covered parking and big storage room, off
Athallassa Avenue near English School in a small modern building. AVAILABLE 1st
of AUGUST – Strovolos €800
(A2ST10023-R), (photos in the
website).
26. 3 bed brand new luxury
TO LET NICOSIA
ﬁnished apartment in a small
modern design building with 2
bathrooms(one en suite), expensive electrical appliances
in the kitchen, double glazed
windows with electrical shutter, covered veranda, pressure
system, solar heater, central
satellite antenna, 2 covered
parkings, storage room, security entrance, close to Honda
trafﬁc lights walking distance
to the centre – Agioi Omologites €850 (A3AOM0009-R),
(photos in the website).
27. 3 big bedrs +ofﬁce space
luxury penthouse ﬂoor apartment,
renovated,
central
heating independent, full
a/c, 230sq.m, double glazed
windows,3wc, 2 bathrooms
(one en suite), solar heater,
pressure system, SKY satellite dish, big sitting and dining
areas, solid parquet ﬂoor all
the ﬂat, big kitchen with cooker and oven and breakfast
area, very nice view of the old
city,40sq.m private roof garden area ,covered parking on
a small building in the centre
of Nicosia near the Museum
and the old Hospital. Available middle 15th of SEPTEMBER –Nicosia Centre €1200
(A4NIC0005-R), (photos in the
website)
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2 BDRM ﬂat in the centre of Ni-
TO LET LIMASSOL
cosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927.
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LIMASSOL
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FIRST FLOOR HOUSE FOR
RENT in Potamos Germasogia. 1 bedroom A/C, full furnished. Parking available large
veranda. Call 96717537
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FOR RENT one bedroom furnished ﬂat in Katraki building,
100 metres from the sea and
Debenhams Olympia. Price
€450 (included common expenses). Tel: 99406415 Andreas, fax: 25582963
FOR RENT IN LIMASSOL furnished studio with small verandah, air condition (hot/cold),
in the tourist area, opposite
the sea, on “Lordos Beach
Garden”, 2nd ﬂoor. Rent €250
per month. Information Tel.
25378504.
4 BEDROOM recently renovated whole ﬂoor apartment
of 200sqm.. Fully Furnished.
Opposite sea, swimming pool,
tennis court, and security gate.
3 new bathrooms, new kitchen
with stainless steel appliances.
2 Covered parkings. Price €
1500/month. Call 99 330 908
OFFICE FOR RENT opposite
sea with amazing sea views.
120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen.
Security system, cabling and
server room ready. Price €
1400/month negotiable tel. 99
330 908 www.cyprusre.com/
TO LET LIMASSOL
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GROUND FLOOR HOUSE 3
bedrooms in Omonia furnished
/unfurnished, ﬁre place in sitting room, main sitting room,
kitchen,
bathroom,
utility,
shower with W/C. A/C in bedrooms. Covered parking. Price
€650. Tel 95 116808
VERY SPACIOUS LUXURY
BUNGALOW HOUSE situated
in the village of Palodeia, ideal
for its proximity to the Heritage school and only 5 miles
to Limassol town centre with
shops and banks close by. Accommodation comprises of an
open plan sitting room/dining
area, fully ﬁtted and equipped
kitchen, 1 master bedroom with
en-suite, 3 large bedrooms, a
separate wc/bathroom and an
ofﬁce room. A/c & c/h throughout. In front of the house is a
car port for 2 cars but has additional space for another 3
or 4 cars. Price €1250.00pm.
Viewing available after 23/8/12
please contact Yiannakis Georgiou 99451011.
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OFFICE FOR RENT OPPOSITE
SEA WITH amazing sea views.
120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen.
Security system, cabling and
server room ready. Price €
1400/month negotiable tel. 99
330 908 www.cyprusre.com/
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LARNACA
PROTEA APTS LARNACA
Residential and holiday apts
for rent monthly or weekly Lar-
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Advertiser
TO LET LARNACA
naca – Dhekelia road, close to
Golden Bay Hotel 1 & 2 bedroom apts, furnished and with
low rent with swimming pool,
2 minutes walking distance
from the beach, with a new
pedestrian crossing in front
of the building. Contact us
on 99672466, 99404522, and
99078590
LARNACA FLAT FOR RENT:
Fully-furnished
spacious
2-bedroom ﬁrst ﬂoor ﬂat in
central location near Metro
supermarket, A/C, private
parking, intercom system, ensuite bathroom, small block.
Phone: 99354789
PHINIKOUDES PROMENADE
one bdr apt on the 4th ﬂoor,
F/F, a/c. In the most exclusive
area on the sea front of the
city centre. A panoramic view
of the Marina and the sea. Situated right on the sea. Makes
life a holiday all year round.
For long term rent only €380.
Tel: 99222197, 99541828.
FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom ﬂat near Larco hotel
Larnaca. Price €370. Tel:
99202543
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1. K.S.L LETTINGS – APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished ground ﬂoor 2 bedroom apartment, overlooking
pool. Beautifully furnished
throughout. 350 Euros per calendar month. Larnaca District.
Quote TLL884. Tel. (00357)
24815104
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units, private parking, beautiful garden, very quiet area,
with sea views. Rent is negotiable, Tel : 96570227
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6 BEDROOM, LUXURY DETACHED VILLA in Chlorakas, for rent. Breathtaking,
unobscured sea and mountain views. Close to all amenities, located in a cul de sac in
Melanos area with a private
road. 6 bed, 2 bathrooms
(+2en suite), utility room,
outdoor storage, Jacuzzi,
private pool, fully A/C, ﬁtted
kitchen, large verandas and
landscaped gardens. Long
term let or sale by owner, call
99414920
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FOR RENT 2bed townhouse
3 km from Paphos centre in
small project of 4 units, large
swimming pool available, free
wiﬁ Large green areas around,
sea and mountain views
€350 per month .Please call
99439891.
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UNIVERSAL AREA, 1 bedroom,
furnished apartment, off street
parking, quiet area, euro 250
per month, plus electricity, no
other charges. Tel : 96523557
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FOR RENT A selection of 1 to
5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal,
Peyia, Tomb of the Kings,
Tsada, Timi & Kato Paphos
Landlord & Owners please
call 99329357 Or please
view at are website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus
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CHLORAKA, 2 bedroom apart-
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– VILLA FOR RENT Fully furnished 3 bedroom Villa with
a good-sized rear garden &
Communal pool, located in
the village of Oroklini. Call
for further information quoting Ref. TLL1189. Tel. (00357)
24815104
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PAPHOS
2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in
the heart of Kato Paphos, the
property is situated in a quiet,
private complex, next to archeological site overlooking
the light house, very reasonable rent, tel : 99411933
AGIOS NEOPHYTOS, TALA, 2
bedroom house, with a/c, split
TO LET PAPHOS
TO LET PAPHOS
ment, only 5 years old, fully
furnished with a/c, lovely, large
patio area in rear €300 per
month, + communal charges please call Malcolm on:
99127031 - no agents
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FOR RENT new ground ﬂoor terrace studios for rent in Kouka
village(20 minutes from Limassol) in a quiet and peaceful
area fully furnished €180 per
month minimum contract 1
year. Inf. Mob 99548855
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For your consideration
1. KATHIKAS AREA €450 a
modern 2 bedroom, stone
walled villa with sea views,
large swimming pool and 650
sq metres garden. In a quiet
cul-de-sac, available unfurnished or furnished. Solar
panels and pressurised water
system. A great villa in a fabulous village. Will accept pets.
2. TREMITHOUSA €275 situated in a quiet cul-de-sac,
this furnished modern 3 bedroom detached house with
small garden is available,
a/c throughout and satellite
broadband. Offering fantastic
views of the sea.
3. TREMITHOUSA €250 luxury
2 bedroom maisonette. Fully
furnished with modern furniture and satellite broadband.
Modern furniture with new appliances. & A/c throughout.
Good sea views. Located in a
fabulous village. A must see!
4. CENTRAL PAPHOS €250
modern 1 bedroom top ﬂoor
apartment, opposite bowling, master with walk-in wardrobe. Fully furnished with all
appliances. Lift to all ﬂoors.
This complex offers a lovely
communal pool area and security barrier entrance. Close
to amenities, a great central
location.
Call Val on 99166563 Or Liz on
96703403
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UNIVERSAL AREA, 2 bedroom
modern furnished town house,
communal pool Euro 450 per
month Tel 99387842
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ANAVARGOS,
3 bedroom
detached house, low maintenance garden, communal
pool, very close to international school, Unfurnished or
furnished, euro 550 per month
Tel: 99239262
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ONE BEDROOM fully furnished
apartment for rent in Kissonerga. Near Cynthiana Beach
hotel and close proximity to
Coral Bay. Overlooking the
sea and 100 metres from
beach. AC in bedroom. Tel:
99-492521/ 99- 673276
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PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with
modern quality furniture and
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ﬁnishes.
Central
heating,
sky, alarm, inﬁnity pool and
stunnning sea and mountain
views €700 per month, call :
99389426
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BRAND NEW APT, opposite
Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel
99403261
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1. UNIVERSAL AREA €550
spacious 3 bedroom semi detached house all with ensuite
bathrooms plus downstairs
guest wc. Large storage room
& roof terrace. Enclosed garden with private pool. Drive
for off street parking. Available
unfurnished with sky satellite.
Situated in a great central location.
2. TALA €625 unfurnished modern 3 bedroom detached villa
offering total privacy & breathtaking sea views. Includes
underﬂoor heating plus real
ﬁre. Master with ensuite. Large
storage room. Shutters & ﬂyscreens. Covered veranda,
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TO LET PAPHOS
garden with mature plants, private pool offering sea views.
Off street parking. A beautiful
home.
3. KAMARES €675 we are delighted to offer this 2 bedroom
2 bathroom bungalow offering
magniﬁcent sea views. Lovely
enclosed garden & private
pool. Available unfurnished
though can be furnished if desired. Includes central heating
throughout plus modern gas
ﬁre for those winter months.
Outdoor storage facilities,
shaded patio area, ﬂy screens
& shutters.
4. KONIA €700 new to the market this spacious detached
3 bedroom villa, master with
ensuite. Guest wc. Beautifully
furnished with quality modern
furniture. Separate modern ﬁtted kitchen plus separate utility room. Shutters to all windows. Roof terrace with sea
views. Fully enclosed garden
with storage shed, covered
barbeque area and private
pool offering lovely views.
5. PEYIA €700 rental price includes pool cleaning. Unfurnished 3 bedroom bungalow,
master with ensuite. Spacious
kitchen & living area. Enclosed
garden with well & private pool
offering sea views. Covered
verandas, private drive for off
street parking. Situated in a
quiet residential area.
6. PEYIA €750 price includes
pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this
property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3
bathroom villas is furnished
with modern furniture, including satellite TV. One bedroom
& bathroom on ground ﬂoor.
a spacious enclosed garden
with private pool offering stunning views. Off street parking.
TO LET PAPHOS
7. KOILI €800 brand new modern detached 4 bedroom, 3
bathroom villa. High quality ﬁxtures & ﬁttings. Spacious living
area with real ﬁreplace, plus
underﬂoor heating throughout.
Enclosed garden with private
pool. Total plot size 600 sq
meters, covered area 220 sq
metres. Available unfurnished.
Pets allowed.
8. MESOGI €1250 stunning detached 4 bedroom 5 bathroom
villa. One bedroom & ensuite
on ground ﬂoor. Spacious
kitchen with separate utility
room. Available unfurnished
though includes gas central
heating plus real ﬁreplace in
living area. Enclosed garden
& private pool. Gated entrance
with undercover parking. Situated on a private road.
Tel: 97790883 ofﬁce: 26271858
visit our website for many
more properties www.mrrent-paphos.net email: info@
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RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS
PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO
RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF
PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM
RENTAL. CALL 97648440
FOR MORE INFORMATION.
LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU
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RENT.!!!
1. KAMARES - TALA – 2 bed
2 bath fully furnished luxury
bungalow set on an elevated
plot on this prestigious development. Open plan living area
with feature ﬁreplace, dining
area. Separate kitchen with
D/W etc. Separate utilty room
with access to side garden.
2 double , bedrooms, master
with en-suite. Family bath-
use” 4bed,s
“Orchard Ho
9 month
Title ready in
1-5 bed villas & cottages
U SEFUL PHONE NUMBERS
POLICE DIVISION HQ
HOSPITALS ........ 1400
Nicosia ........................22 802 020
Limassol ......................25 805 050
Larnaca .......................24 804 040
Paphos ........................26 806 060
Famagusta ..................23 803 030
Nicosia General .............22-801400
Nicosia Makarios ...........22-405000
Limassol Old ................25-305333
Limassol New ................25-801100
Larnaca Old...................24-630312
Larnaca New .................24-630300
Paphos ..........................26-821800
Famagusta ....................23-821211
Drug Law Enforcement Unit
......................................... 1498
(Confidential Information)
Rescue Co-ordination
Centre ............................. 1441
(Immediate Response Service for
Aeronautical or Maritime Accident
& Incidents)
Game Fund Service:
(Wildlife and hunting)
Central offices (Nicosia): 22867786, 22-867897
Nicosia: 22-664606, 99-445697
Limassol: 25-343800, 99-445728,
Larnaca/Famagusta: 24-805128,
99-634325
Paphos: 26-306211, 99-445679
Forest Fires ..................... 1407
Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410
(Outside hours.............. 22-304160)
AIDS Advisory Bureau
................................ 22-302826
Domestic Violence Centre
.......................................... 1440
(Emergency Centre for Victims)
Drug Info &
Poison Control ............... 1401
Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267
Police Duty Officer ......... 1499
(Confidential Information)
Airports
Larnaca ..........................77778833
Paphos ...........................77778833
TO LET PAPHOS
room. Large verandah overlooking the pool. Sep storage
room, covered parking and
additional store. Swimming
pool, and landscaped gardens. Euros 600.00 a month
or sensible offers only
2. TRIMITHOUSA 3 bed 2. bath
unfurnished apartment/house
set in quiet location with views.
Open plan living area and dining area.. Fully ﬁtted kitchen
with appliances . Guest WC.
3 double bedrooms. Family
bathroom. Large balcony, offstreet parking. Euros 400.00 a
month.
3. KATHIKAS – 3 bed,2 bath
unfurnished stone bungalow
with no immediate neighbours.. Open plan living area
with ﬁreplace with log burner..
Fitted kitchen, utility room. 3
bedrooms, master with ensuite. Family bathroom. Parking, Swimming pool and landscaped garden areas. Very
quiet area. Euros 600.00 a
month
4. MESA CHORIO – 2 Bed, 2.
bath fully furnished apartment
in good location close to ISOP
Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2
double bedrooms, master with
en-suite. Family bathroom. Off
street parking & comm. Pool.
Minutes into Paphos. Euros
425. Or close offers
5. GOUDI (near Polis) Outstanding 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa. Set in a rural
setting the property enjoys
privacy with no immediate
neighbours. Open plan living
area, spacious ﬁtted kitchen.
Guest WC. Ground ﬂoor bedroom with en-suite. Stairs to
2 further double bedroom
with en-suite. Breakfast area
with hob & fridge and seating space. Doors out to large
covered verandah with panoramic views. Full A/C, C/H,
garage, over-ﬂow tiled pool,
SKY dish. Villa has substantial
insulation to walls and ﬂoors.
Large gardens. Euros 800.00
per month.
6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed
fully furnished apartment. Living area, ﬁtted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, balcony, shutters,
comm. Pool and parking. Euros 400.00 a montn or offers. 1
& 2 bed apartments available
on Universal.
7. TALA - 5 bed, 3.5 bath large
fully furnished villa. Very large
property with open plan living area. Fitted kitchen, storage cupboard, guest WC. 2
bedrooms, bathroom on this
level with small seating area.
Ideal for dual living. Stairs up
to 3 double bedroom, en-suite
& family bathroom. Heated
swimming pool, A/C, C/H.
Electric gates and garden areas. Parking for several cars.
Euros 1500.00 per month or
TO LET PAPHOS
offers.
8. POLEMI – 4 bed 2.5 bath
massive unfurnished apartment with own entrance in
large landscaped gardens.
Spacious open plan living
area with feature ﬁreplace
and dining space Huge ﬁtted
kitchen and breakfast area.
Guest WC with storage area.4
double bedrooms. Master with
en-suite bathroom. Family
bathroom. Pretty landscaped
gardens, shared pool and
off street parking. Quiet rural
property.. Euros 550.00 per
month. OVNO
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RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL
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REFURBISHED
stone-built
village house located in Kili
Paphos. Consists of 3 large
rooms 1 small. Traditional
wood burnt ﬁreplace, fully
tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610.
FOR SALE NICOSIA
in quite area. Building recently plastered and painted.
€850,000 euro. negotiable
Call: 99 330 908
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FOR SALE is a building with 4
ﬂats, each 3 bedroom. 2 on
the ground ﬂoor with yards,
and 2 on the ﬁrst ﬂoor. 2 on
ﬁrst ﬂoor completely renovated. Located in quiet area.
Building recently plastered
and painted. €850,000 negotiable Call: 99 330 908
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FOR SALE PENTHOUSE
between Armenias Str and
Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom,
main bedroom with shower,
c/h, ﬁreplace, large verandas. For more information
please call: 99467596.
LIMASSOL
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2 BEDROOM FLAT located
in Germasoyia with partial
sea views, 85sqm less than
10 years old with title deeds
Price € 135.000 tel. 99 330
908 www.cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0361
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AYIA NAPA
LUXURY VILLA with pool &
BBQ Close to Nissi Beach,
5 minutes walk, Sleeps 8.
Available 20/8 up to 20/9,
SPECIAL PRICE For more
info see owner’s direct UK,
prop. No CY2141 or call
99775861
PROPERTY
FOR SALE
NICOSIA
FOR SALE, single storey 3-bdrm house, double garage,
storeroom, s/pool, nice garden, built on 1800 sq. m. of
land located in Pera-Chorio
(Nissou), 17 Km. south of
Nicosia. Owner is returning
to base. Tel. 22 523 399 / 96
799 267
FLAT FOR SALE: 2 BEDROOM FLAT with title deeds,
110 sqm, fully renovated,
best central area, 800m from
the European University, excellent view, eu 119,000. Tel
99 621914
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FOR SALE IS A BUILDING
WITH 4 FLATS, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground ﬂoor
with yards, and 2 on the ﬁrst
ﬂoor. 2 on ﬁrst ﬂoor completely renovated. Located
OFFICE/WAREHOUSE
FOR RENT
735m² of ofﬁce space and 1200m²
warehousing available for long term rent
on Yianni Kranidioti Avenue very close to
Carlsberg Brewery.
Easy access to Nicosia-Limassol highway
(only 200 metres).
Loading bays for warehouses and parking
space for more than 40 cars. Hidden fuel tank
plus car mechanics station.
For more information please call 99218866
SALE LIMASSOL 2 bed ﬂat on
beach road; light, airy with balcony. New ﬂooring, a/c units,
lift 2nd ﬂoor, windows 3 sides,
own car space. TITLE DEEDS.
€115,000.
Tel
99178141
www.homesinternational.info
(Les Bois)
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LARNACA
PERVOLIA 4 Bed house for
sale with Full Title Deeds.
160m covered on a 285m
plot. Private swimming pool,
aircon, ﬂyscreens, carport.
Built 2007, 5 min walk to
Pervolia square, 3 min drive
to Faros beach. €220,000,
99051706
JUST ON SEA luxurious two
story villa, four en-suite
bedrooms, steam baths,
roof garden, for sale, at
Pervolia beach, 8 kilometres from Larnaca. Asking
price €1,499,000. Call 00357
97790619.
AMAZING SEASIDE WATERFRONT BEACH APARTMENT - Immaculate and
spacious open-plan living,
2 double bdrms, fantastic
sea views, big veranda and
parking in exclusive location
FOR SALE LARNACA
only 6 minutes to Larnaca
airport. This excellent investment property is available
immediately with title deeds.
For
viewing
telephone
99890128.
NEAR MARONI Coastline
Larnaca 2 bdrm bungalow
on large plot Wrap around
veranda with sea & mountain views, Large lounge/
dining room, Large Kitchen,
Full C/H Provision for a/c
All furniture & car included
€295,000 99147929
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PAPHOS
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UNIVERSAL AREA, 1 bedroom apartment with title
deeds, c/p, communal pool
in small complex of 8, under
cover parking, roof terrace,
store room and large balcony overlooking the pool,
the sale also includes celing fans, white goods and
furniture , bargain at : euro
69.500, Tel : 99131044
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FLATS FOR SALE OR RENT:
kissonerga, 3 bedroom ﬂat
with title deeds, in a block of
4 ﬂats only, fully renovated, 2
baths, 146 sqm closed area,
ch, ac, covered parking,
excellent view of sea and
mountains, half registration
fees till 31.12.12. Reduced
to eu 135,000,or rent eu 450
pm. Tel 99 621914
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2 PROPERTIES BETWEEN
POLIS AND LATSI. 2 bed
townhouse, village centre
€69,000 and quiet 3/4 bed
house
overlooking
bay.
2 bath, c.h. wood burner,
a.c. bedrooms, salt water 9x6 pool set in approx
2.500 sq.mts. €444,000 Tel:
99995531
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TALA, 5 bdrm villa for sale . Title deeds. Sea and mountain
view. 5 en-suite double bedrooms. Central heating, a/c,
ﬁreplace. Private L shape s/
pool and garden area, patio,
with bbq, bar and pergola.
Car parking. Plot: 620 sq.m.
Covered: 285sqm, €458.000.
tel. 99587757.
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AYIA NAPA
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AYIA NAPA, rare opportunity,
with title deeds, 4 bedroom
house, renovated, swimming
pool, 300m from best beach,
650 sqm plot. Eu 440,000. Tel
99 621914
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AYIA NAPA, studio for sale,
38 sqm, furnished and fully
renovated, with title deed, in
licensed complex, 500m from
nissi beach, eu 52,000, tel. 99
621914
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FOR SALE
Semi-detached house in Archangelos
area split level on a hill, no houses in
front, 3 big bedrooms, 2 big bathrooms
and TV room big lounge & dining area,
fireplace, fitted kitchen, 40 sq.m. store
room, C/H, A/C, solar.
For information call: 99496541
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CYPRUS MAIL Friday, August 10, 2012
Advertiser
CHURCHES
ALL SAINTS GREEK
ORTHODOX CHURCH (ENGLISH)
Sunday Divine Liturgy 8-10am. Followed by Fellowship
hour (coffee) Services are now being held at the
underground Chapel of All Saints of Cyprus at St.
Panteleimonos Church Makedonitissa Archangelos
(Engomi)
For more info please contact Fr. Joseph Coleman
Tel. 99938924
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
OF AGIOS ARSENIOS, LIMASSOL
(near Tsirion Stadium)
The Orthodox Liturgy in English
Saturday, 4 February at 8:30 am
For information please contact:
Father M. Spanou at 99 – 401365
(msspanou@googlemail.com)
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST MESA
GEITONIA, LIMASSOL
The Orthodox Liturgy in English served fortnightly
on Saturdays at 9.00 am. We also hold a
Discussion Group every Thursday evening at
7.30 pm
For information please call Fr. Christopher Klitou
Mobile: 99957144
Fax: 25710318
You can email us at: klitoux@logos.cy.net
or visit our website: www.christopherklitou.com
Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare
Education/Information Centre,
No. 12 Dedalos Building,
8049 Kato Paphos
PO Box 61272
8132 Kato Paphos
Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com
www.facebook/paphiakos
Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com
Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity
Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897
STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS!
ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS!!!!!
PAPHIAKOS NEW CHARITYSHOP/T.ROOMS NOW OPEN IN PEYIA.
T ROOMS NOW OPEN
(next to Peyia Police Station)
Volunteers and donations needed please contact Suzanne 99151996 for further information.
NOW OPEN !!!
BOOKSHOP/INFORMATION CENTRE/T-SHOP
IN POLIS CONTACT JUDY 99223572 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND DETAILS.
PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. BOOK EXCHANGE SHOP TREMITHOUSA
Paphiakos Book Exchange Shop, Tremithousa. Special Tuesday sales held on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesdays of each month. For more
information Tel 99771763/99283467
PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE
Registered Charity No 1529
Contact our shops and we can take your clutter
The Charity Shops are located at:
Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos
Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos
Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca
Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol
Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods!
PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking.
Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600.
PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE URGENTLY NEEDS PASTA TO HELP FEED THE DOGS AND SOFT FOOD FOR ALL THE CATS.
DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT THE CLINIC.
PLEASE SPONSOR AN ANIMAL OR BECOME A MEMBER TO ENSURE PAPHIAKOS CAN CONTINUE WIH THEIR NECESSARY WORK.
Telephone Jan 26946461 ex 114 or 97614008
NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE
CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!!
THE DONKEYS AT PAPHIAKOS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HELP YOU GET RID OF YOUR UNWANTED CAROBS. PLEASE DELIVER TO
THE CLINIC AND GIVE THE DONKEYS A SPECIAL TREAT!
FEELING THE HEAT? THINK ABOUT THE ANIMALS NEEDING WATER AND SHADE. MAKE SURE DOGS ARE NOT LEFT IN CARS THEY
BECOME OVENS IN SUMMER!!
For further advice or assistance contact the clinic 26953496 or visit the website www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com
Tel. 99 293489, 99 279960
Email: immanuel.church.nicosia@gmail.com
DEUTSCHE GOTTESDIENSTE IN ZYPERN
LARNAKA COMMUNITY CHURCH
APHRODITE STREET, LARNAKA
10.00 AM MORNING SERVICE and
SUNDAY SCHOOL
For more details ring Fred 24365152
Nikosia: Am 1. und 3. Samstag im Monat
in der St. Paul’s Cathedral um 18 Uhr
Limassol: Am 2. Sonntag im Monat im
Gemeindehaus in Germasogeia um 11
Uhr Am 4. Sonntag im Monat in der St.
Barnabaskirche um 18 Uhr
Paphos: Am 2. Samstag in der Kirche an
der Paulussaeule um 16 Uhr
Agia Napa: Am 4. Sonntag im Monat im
Hof des Klosters um 9.30 Uhr
Open Door Baptist Church
Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold,
Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de
GRACE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH
Invites you to
COME AND EXPERIEBNCE THE LOVE OF GOD
WITH US
Int. Christian Business Fellowship Meeting Centre
Sundays: 10.00am Sunday School
11.00 am Main Service
(Dine with us centre services)
Wednesdays: Prayer meeting 6pm
Address: To Arsinois Str., 1010 Nicosia (Next to
Western Union Office to KISA)
Contact: 99988900 or 97667932.
VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!!!
THE REFORMED CHURCH
OF LIMASSOL
CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS.
Sunday School (Juniors and Teens)
Outreach and Evangelism
Bible Studies
Website: www.immanuelchurchnicosia.org
9 Larnakos Street
Katholiki Area Limassol
Sundays: 9:45, 11:00 AM, 1:30 PM
Wednesdays: 7:30 PM
25 751193 or 99 758729
www.cbm-odbc.org
FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL
EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581
Family oriented evangelical church
Contemporary Christian Worship
Sunday 10am
(Holy Communion - 1st Sunday of the month)
Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence
of God, and relevant to our lives.
Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am
sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion
at 7 pm.
International Evangelical Church (Reformed)
is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½
blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1
block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For
further information call Steve at 99384742,
or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com
All are welcome!
NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE
10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL.
22464375
SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM,
WEDNESDAY 8PM
St Barnabas’ Anglican Church
153 Leontiou A Street Limassol
www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com
Telephone: 25362713
- All welcome HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH,
PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA
Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays
8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm
Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday
Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net
GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA
8 Ayiou Neofytou St
Sundays 10 a.m.
Also Midweek Meetings
Details: Colin 24530700
The Anglican Church of Paphos
Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar)
Sunday
8.15am Holy Eucharist
6.00pm Sung Eucharist
4th Sunday
6.00pm Choral Evensong
Wednesday
9.00am Holy Eucharist
rd
3 Wednesday
(BCP)
St. Stephen’s, Tala
1st & 3rd Sunday 11.00 am Holy Eucharist
2nd & 4th Sunday 11.00am Morning Worship
St. Luke’s, Prodromi
1st & 5th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship
2nd , 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Eucharist
1st & 3rd Wednesday 9.30am Holy Eucharist
1st Sunday
6.00 p.m. Peace & Wholeness
with Holy Eucharist
4th Sunday every quarter 9.30 am
Holy Eucharist from BPC
Church Office: 26-953044 Fax: 26-952486
Email: anglicancofp@cytanet.com.cy
for directions to each church
St Helena’s Anglican
Church, Larnaca
St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx
Sunday Service:
Holy Communion 9.30 am
ALL WELCOME
Tel:24651327
ofﬁce@sainthelenas.com
International
EVANGELICAL CHURCH
(Reformed)
Limassol
352 St. Andrew’s Street
(1½ blocks from Starbucks/Fat Boy)
Sunday worship 10:30am
Wednesday Bible Discussion 7pm
For info: 99384742
ALL ARE WELCOME
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Television
CYBC 1
CYBC 2
ANTENNA
MEGA
SIGMA
PLUS TV
06.45 News
08.00 Concert
09.30 Chef Ston Aera
(rpt)
Cooking show
offering viewers
quick, simple
and economical
recipes.
10.10 Reload Summer
11.00 Ceremony To
Honour Pavlos
Kontides
See Pick Of The
Day.
12.10 Istories Tou
Horkou (rpt)
Local comedy
series,.
13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera
15.30 Syn Plyn
Local talk-show
with studio
discussion and
viewers calling in.
17.00 Swimming
Men’s Open Water.
18.10 News
18.30 Kati Psinetai
Celebrities
Celebrity special
where contestants
try to outdo each
other by throwing
the perfect dinner
party, which is then
judged on its merits
by their rivals.
19.30 Ceremony To
Honour Pavlos
Kontides
20.00 News / Weather /
Financial Report
21.00 Vimata Stin Ammo
(rpt)
21.35 Olympic Games
No further details
supplied.
21.50 Water Polo
Men’s Semiﬁnal #2.
23.10 News
23.25 Taekwondo
Women’s 67kg Gold Medal Final
and Men’s 80kg Gold Medal Final.
00.00 Repeats
09.00 Inspector Gadget
09.30 Fireman Sam
09.40 Flipper And
Lopaka
10.05 Arthur
10.30 Pippi
Longstocking
10.55 Tinga Tinga Tales
11.10 Maya The Bee
11.30 Canoe/Kayak
Flatwater: Men’s
K-1 200m - Heats,
Flatwater: Men’s
C-1 200m - Heats,
Flatwater: Women’s
K-1 200m - Heats,
Flatwater: Men’s
K-2 200m - Heats,
Flatwater: Men’s
K-1 200m Semiﬁnals and
Flatwater: Men’s
C-1 200m Semiﬁnals .
14.00 Ryth. Gymnastics
Individual AllAround - Qual.,
Rotation 3 and
Individual AllAround - Qual.,
Rotation 4.
16.30 Sailing
Women’s Elliott 6m
- SF Match #30.
17.40 Water Polo
Men’s Semiﬁnal #1.
18.50 News In English
19.00 News In Turkish
19.10 Basketball
Men’s Semiﬁnal.
21.00 Track & Field
Men’s Pole Vault
- Final, Women’s
4x400m Relay Round 1, Women’s
Hammer Throw
- Final, Men’s
4x100m Relay Round 1, Women’s
5000m - Final,
Women’s 4x100m
Relay - Final,
Women’s 1500m
- Final and Men’s
4x400m Relay Final.
23.25 Basketball
Men’s Semiﬁnal.
01.00 Olympic News
Channel
07.00 Tis Ellados Ta
Paidia (rpt)
07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den
(rpt)
08.00 Fast Money (rpt)
08.45 Lyke, Lyke Eisai
Edo (rpt)
09.30 To Kafe Tis Haras
(rpt)
10.20 To Evdomo Kleidi
(rpt)
10.50 Deixe Mou To Filo
Sou (rpt)
11.30 Santa Yiolanta
(rpt)
12.15 Tin Patisa (rpt)
13.00 News
13.15 Galileo (rpt)
14.00 Konstantinou Kai
Elenis (rpt)
Greek comedy
series.
14.40 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt)
15.30 To Kafe Tis Haras
(rpt)
16.20 Krifa Monopatia
(rpt)
17.10 Mi Mou Les Antio
(rpt)
18.00 News
18.10 Lyke, Lyke Eisai
Edo (rpt)
06.30 Paralliloi Dromoi
(rpt)
07.00 Yia Sena (rpt)
08.40 Mia Stigmi Dio
Zoes (rpt)
09.20 Denis O Tromeros
06.20 Erotas Me
Epidotisi
07.05 An M’ Agapas
08.00 Oi Takkoi
09.05 Vourate Geitonoi
(rpt)
10.20 I Kouzina Tis
Mamas (rpt)
11.15 Eho Ena Mistiko
12.00 Vasiliki (rpt)
13.40 Eﬁaltis Stin
Kouzina (rpt)
14.30 Oikogeneiakes
Istories (rpt)
15.30 The Se Do Sto
Ploio (rpt)
16.20 Baywatch (rpt)
Glossy surfside
drama with the
Malibu lifeguards.
17.10 Pame Paketo (rpt)
With News at 18.00.
18.15 Tropico
Latin American
telenovela.
19.10 The Del Monte
Heirs
20.20 News
21.20 Tha Se Do Sto
Ploio (rpt)
22.10 To Kokkino
Domatio
23.15 The 4400
Second season.
‘Weight of the
World’. One of
the returnees
masters a method
of increasing body
metabolism which,
if made available
as a commercial
practice, would
allow people to lose
body fat instantly.
00.00 News
00.10 Sex And The City
(rpt)
00.45 Istories Tou
Astinomou Beka
(rpt)
01.45 Allou
Ximeromenoi (rpt)
02.20 Alithinoi Erotes
(rpt)
03.05 Eleni (rpt)
04.45 Tropico (rpt)
06.45 Star News
07.45 Mesimeriani
Meleti Best Of
09.15 Kids’ TV
11.50 Ta Kopelia
Local comedy
series.
12.30 Thema Gevsis
Cookery show.
13.30 Star News
14.15 Max Adventures
14.25 Rastamouse
14.35 Bo On the Go
15.00 King
15.25 Martha Speaks
15.45 Teen Days
16.15 Exelixeis Stin
Showbiz
16.45 Mesimeriani
Meleti Best Of
(rpt)
17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt)
Discussions
about various
issues based on
woman’s life (men,
relationships, sex,
kids etc.) with
showbiz guests.
18.50 Nistikoi Praktores
(rpt)
Cooking show,
with helpful tips
on eating well and
nutrition. Hosted by
Dina Nikolaou.
19.40 Fotis - Maria Live
Best Of (rpt)
Entertainment
magazine featuring
segments on
cooking, health,
fashion, lifestyle
issues and more.
21.00 Exelixeis Stin
Showbiz (rpt)
22.00 Greek FILM: Yia
Mia Houfta
Touristries
Comedy. 1972.
23.40 LTV Sports News
00.45 Star News
01.00 Repeats
18.50
19.30
20.20
21.20
22.50
23.40
00.30
00.35
01.20
Tin Patisa (rpt)
Eva Luna
News
Aiyia Fuxia (rpt)
House (rpt)
First season. ‘DNR’.
A legendary jazz
musician, who
believes he has a
fatal brain disease,
is brought into
the hospital with
pneumonia and
signs a form to
ensure he isn’t
resuscitated.
Ekeines Ki Ego
(rpt)
News
Kai Oi
Pantremenoi
Ehoun Psihi (rpt)
Ellas To Megaleio
Sou (rpt)
10.00 Proino Mou (rpt)
Lifestyle
programme
that features
entertainment,
music and more.
12.00 Yia Banaki
15.00 I Dada (rpt)
Greek comedy
series, based on a
popular US sitcom.
16.00 I Ora I Kali (rpt)
17.40 Mia Stigmi Dio
Zoes
Greek drama
series, based
on the popular
Latin American
telenovela about
mistaken identities.
18.20 News
18.30 Mousiko Kouti
(rpt)
Greek game show,
testing contestants
on their music
knowledge.
19.20 Peninta Peninta
(rpt)
Greek comedy
series.
20.10 News
21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi
(rpt)
Greek comedy
series.
22.20 Daddy Cool (rpt)
23.30 Singles (rpt)
Greek comedy
series.
00.00 News
00.10 The Shield
Police drama series
chronicling the
turbulent day-today life of the Strike
Team, a group
of corrupt Los
Angeles cops.
01.00 Yia Banaki (rpt)
03.30 Yia Sena (rpt)
05.30 Proino Mou (rpt)
CAPITAL
07.00
08.00
10.30
11.00
11.30
13.15
14.45
17.20
18.15
19.15
19.50
20.05
21.00
22.45
01.40
Alpha News
Kids’ TV
Magikos Kosmos
I Kori Tou Mistral
Deste Tous
Greek FILM: Min
Eidate Ton Panayi
FILM: The Law Of
The Desert
A former CIA agent
Tom is hired by a
beautiful CEO to
save the life of her
son who has been
kidnapped by his
father and taken to
his grandfather in
Morocco. Action,
starring Rutger
Hauer. 1990.
O Anthropos Tis
Thalassas
Melrose Place
With News at 18.30.
News
Sports Time
Rubi
FILM: The
Librarian: Quest
For The Spear
A meek academic
settles into life as
a librarian, but the
peace is shattered
when mercenaries
set their sights on
the artefacts in his
care. Adventure,
starring Noah Wyle.
2004.
FILM: Gone But
Not Forgotten
A defence attorney
wrestles with her
conscience while
representing a
multimillionaire
who may be a
serial killer. Thriller,
starring Brooke
Shields. 2005.
FILM: Swept Away
A spoilt socialite
is marooned on a
desert island with
a much loathed
but physically
appealing sailor.
Drama, starring
Madonna. 2002.
Radio
BBC World Service (1323 MW)
00:01 BBC News 00:06 Assignment 00:30 BBC News Summary
00:32 Science In Action 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01
BBC News 01:06 World Brieﬁng 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32
World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06
World Brieﬁng 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily
02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Brieﬁng 03:30
BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness
04:01 BBC News 04:06 HARDtalk 04:30 BBC News Summary
04:32 World Football 05:01 BBC News 05:06 Newsday 05:30 BBC
News Summary 05:32 Newsday 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Newsday
06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Science In Action 06:50 From
Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 Newsday 07:30
BBC News Summary 07:32 The Strand 07:50 Witness 08:01 BBC
News 08:06 Newsday 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 Newsday 09:01 BBC News 09:06 Newsday 09:30 BBC News Summary
09:32 Newsday 10:01 BBC News 10:06 World Football 10:30 BBC
News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 HARDtalk 11:30 BBC News
Summary 11:32 Science In Action 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC
News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World
Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Brieﬁng 13:30 BBC News
Summary 13:32 The Strand 13:50 Witness 14:01 BBC News 14:06
World Have Your Say 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Business
Daily 14:50 Sports News 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30
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HARDtalk 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 World Football 17:01
BBC News 17:06 World Brieﬁng 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32
Science In Action 17:50 From Our Own Correspondent 18:01 BBC
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Sport Today 18:50 Witness 19:01 BBC News 19:06 World Brieﬁng
19:30 BBC News Summary 19:32 World Business Report 20:01
BBC News 20:06 World Have Your Say 20:30 BBC News Summary
20:32 World Have Your Say 21:01 BBC News 21:06 World Brieﬁng
21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Business Daily 21:50 From Our
Own Correspondent 22:01 BBC News 22:06 World Football 22:30
BBC News Summary 22:32 The Strand 22:50 Witness 23:01 BBC
News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour
BFBS 1
(N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM)
02.00 Groove Collective 04.00 BFBS Shufﬂe 05.00 Ops Breakfast
06.00 Cyprus Breakfast With Mark Humphries 09.00 Chris Pearson
11.00 Steve Knight 13.00 Total Ops Connection 15.00 Wez Thompson 18.00 Charlene Guy 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 The Vibe
BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM)
03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor
04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To
Money 08.00 Today 11.00 Simon Marlow 14.00 BFBS Gold With
Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Guettier 19.00
PM 20.00 6 O’Clock News 20.30 Five Live Olympics 00.30 Late
Night Olympics
LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM)
06.00-07.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40
Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhamba 12.00
Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15
News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00
Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in
Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15
18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with
Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme
Radio Napa (106.3 FM)
06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News,
Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News
12.06 Lunchtime Classics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley
18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box
98.5 Rock FM
The Breakfast Show - Tony Newell - 07:00-10:00 2 Hours With
Bejay Browne 10:00-12:00 Rock Fm’s Lunch Box - Jason Collins - 12:00-14:00 Non Stop Music 14:00-15:00 Valentina 15:0018:00 Monday - Tuesday - Thursday - Friday Liquid Radio Show
- Pavlos - 15:00-18:00 Wednesday Drive Time - Johny G. 18:0020:00 Monday - Tuesday Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Wednesday
(Mix @ 6) The Cocktail Show - Antonis - 18:00-20:00 Thursday Friday Panic In The Year Zero - 20:00-22:00 Monday - Tuesday Wednesday Radioactive Metal - 20:00-22:00 - Thursday Live Dj
Set- Dj Allen D 20:00-22:00 - Friday 22:00-24:00 The Gathering With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svennyb – Live Wednesday
& Friday Night Train 24:00-07:00 Monday To Friday
Oldies Digital (Hotbird SAT / (www.oldies-digital.com)
MONDAY-FRIDAY
05:00 That Was The Year 06:00 Easy Going Gold 10:00 The
Juke Box 17:00 That Was The Year 18:00 Oldies Overnights Hear the greatest hits of all time playing non stop during the
darkest hours.
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Television
PICK OF THE DAY
Ceremonies to honour Pavlos Kontides (CyBC1, from 11.00)
I feel sorriest for George Achilleos. And all the
other members of the Cyprus Olympic team, of
course - high-jumper Kyriakos Ioannou, gymnast
Chrystalleni Trikomiti (who’s still in the running
for a medal, at least in theory), tennis star Marcos Baghdatis - but Achilleos came so close four
years ago, missing a Bronze in Skeet Shooting by
the slimmest of margins. He did much worse at
London 2012, not even making the Final, and must
now stand on the sidelines and watch as his fellow Limassolian Pavlos Kontides is given a hero’s
welcome, having made history by winning Cyprus
its first-ever Olympic medal (not completely true,
since we’ve won some medals at the Paralympics;
but of course it’s not quite the same). Kontides, as
everyone knows, won a sailing Silver in the Men’s
Laser category - and the country has predictably
gone nuts. At 11 a.m. today we have live transmission of Pavlos at the Presidential Palace, being
presented with some very prestigious Cross by
President Christofias, then at 6.30 p.m. you can
cheer along with the cheering crowds in Limassol
followed at 7.30 by a half-hour interview he previously gave to CyBC.
I don’t know how old that CyBC interview is but, in any case, Kontides didn’t just appear out
of nowhere. He’s been climbing up the rankings
for years now - and it’s no secret that, in all that
time, he’s had minimal support from the CSO and
the powers-that-be. That only makes his victory
more special, of course, and his tale is truly heroic,
paying his own way (with vital support from his
family) and battling injuries en route to the Olympics - but even Kontides himself, in the midst of
his euphoria, let slip that “with better support” he
hopes to go for Gold at Rio 2016.
Countries tend to go a bit Olympics-crazy, and
that’s understandable; even the BBC website has
been taken over by the exploits of Team GB in
recent weeks. But there’s a suspicion of playing
politics here, our government using Kontides as
a way of improving the nation’s mood (hence its
own popularity) - all the more dubious given that
he didn’t receive much support when it mattered
(now that he’s a winner, of course, everyone wants
a piece of him). And there’s something else. Sporting success is a fragile thing, and we do wrong to
assume that an athlete is always in control of his
(or her) destiny; by going overboard with Kontides
and completely ignoring the likes of Achilleos we’re
actually neglecting the Olympic ideal - viz. that
it’s not about winning, it’s about taking part. Well
done to Pavlos, and all our other Olympic heroes!
Preston Wilder
FILM PICKS
SATELLITE
The Losers (LTV3, 20.00)
Winners watch Oscar winners like The Color of Money
on Novacinema2 tonight, but losers like me are happy
with The Losers - a gleefully non-PC action comedy starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Clay, leader of a black-ops
CIA unit. “Clay and his unit? That sounds like porno,”
observes Jason Patric as the baddie, an evil dude with a
nice line in sardonic quips - but in fact Clay and his unit
are out to get him, having been forced undercover after being betrayed and left for dead. Also in the splashy,
funny mix is Chris Evans as the nerdy member of the
team (“You know cats can make 1000 different sounds,
and dogs can only make 10?”), Zoe Saldana as a lithe
special agent who gets in a huge knock-down ﬁght with
Clay, and a spectacularly stupid stunt involving a bike
and a plane coming at our hero from different directions. Almost everyone thought it was poor; I thought
it was the ﬁ lm The A-Team should’ve been (and wasn’t),
but I guess I’m just a loser. Made in 2010.
Larry Crowne (Novacinema1, 17.45)
07:00 Baboons With Bill Bailey 07:25 Chris
Humfrey’s Wild Life 08:15 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go
Wild 08:40 Breed All About It 09:10 Pandamonium 10:05 Monster Bug Wars 11:00
Wildlife Sos 11:25 Orangutan Island 11:55
Animal Cops Houston 12:50 E-Vets: The Interns 13:45 Animal Precinct 14:40 Monster
Bug Wars 15:30 Karina: Wild On Safari 16:00
Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 16:30 Jeff Corwin Unleashed 17:25 Must Love Cats 18:20 Cats
101 19:15 Wildlife Sos 19:40 Orangutan Island 20:10 Monkey Life 20:35 Animal Battlegrounds 21:05 Monster Bug Wars 22:00 How
Sharks Hunt 22:55 I Was Bitten 23:50 Animal
Cops Houston 00:45 Crime Scene Wild
01:40 Untamed & Uncut 02:35 How Sharks
Hunt 03:30 I Was Bitten 04:25 Monster Bug
Wars 05:20 Monkey Life 05:45 Animal Battlegrounds 06:10 E-Vets: The Interns
Shelter (LTV, 21.00)
“From the producers of The Ring,” declares the trailer,
which doesn’t mean very much (producers don’t have
much creative input on ﬁ lms) but gives an idea of the
sinister tone; “and the writer of Identity,” it adds - which
makes sense, since the twist in that ﬁ lm was almost
identical to the plot of this one. Julianne Moore is our
heroine, a shrink whose most difﬁcult patient (Jonathan
Rhys Meyers) has an unusual problem: not only does
he have multiple personalities but each personality is
a murder victim - i.e. the people he pretends to be all
died horribly - though it doesn’t seem like Jon himself
had anything to do with those murders. Or did he? Lots
of spurious God-talk, lots of slow build-up, lots of gratuitously nasty detail, all disguising a plot riddled with
holes. Probably the silliest supernatural thriller since ...
well, the last supernatural thriller. Made in 2010.
Frozen (Novacinema3, 23.00)
Rated ‘R’ in the States “for disturbing images and
language” - though, seeing as it’s a story of three skiers
stuck on a ski-lift, I’m assuming the images are of icy
hands and frostbite, and the language is along the lines
of ‘Oh fudge, we’re stuck on a ski-lift!’. Non-skiers (like
me) always ﬁ nd it mildly terrifying that one is expected
to sit on a ﬂ imsy little chair - not even strapped in - and
hang from a cable hundreds of feet in the air; skiers insist that ski-lifts are perfectly safe, but they’re not too
convincing - and this ﬁ lm “will do for skiing what Jaws
did for swimming,” to quote a website called bloody-disgusting.com, though in fact it’s tense and claustrophobic more than bloody or disgusting. Made in 2010.
Shelter (LTV, 21.00)
01:10 The Weakest Link 01:55 Monarch Of
The Glen 02:45 Doctor Who Conﬁdential
02:55 Eastenders 03:25 Doctors 03:55 India
With Sanjeev Bhaskar 04:45 As Time Goes
By 05:15 Supernova 05:45 The Weakest
Link 06:30 Keeping Up Appearances 07:00
Teletubbies 07:25 The Roly Mo Show 07:40
Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too 08:15
Teletubbies 08:40 The Roly Mo Show 08:55
Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Me Too 09:30
Keeping Up Appearances 10:00 Supernova
10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 Eastenders
11:45 Doctors 12:15 Monarch Of The Glen
13:05 India With Sanjeev Bhaskar 13:55 The
Old Guys 14:25 Keeping Up Appearances
14:55 The Weakest Link 15:40 Eastenders
16:10 Doctors 16:40 India With Sanjeev
Bhaskar 17:30 Supernova 18:00 The Weakest Link (Primetime): All Singing All Dancing
18:50 Chimp Family Fortunes 19:45 Doctors
20:15 Doctor Who 21:00 The Cup 21:30
Twenty Twelve 22:00 New Tricks 22:50 The
Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 23:20 Allo Allo 23:50 BBC Proms 2010:
Jamie Cullum
07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Dirty Jobs 08:15
Deadliest Catch 09:10 Extreme Fishing
10:05 Mythbusters 11:00 How Do They Do
It? 11:30 Destroyed In Seconds 11:55 Ultimate Survival 12:50 Wheeler Dealers 13:45
Fifth Gear 14:40 American Chopper 15:35
Dirty Jobs 16:30 Mythbusters 17:25 Deadliest Catch 18:20 Extreme Fishing 19:15 River
Monsters 20:10 How It’s Made 20:40 How
Do They Do It? 21:05 Curiosity 22:00 Swamp
Loggers 22:55 Weapons That Changed The
World 23:50 A Haunting 01:40 Curiosity
02:40 Swamp Loggers 03:40 Weapons That
Changed The World 04:40 A Haunting 05:35
How It’s Made 06:00 Overhaulin’
04:00 Canoeing: Summer Olympic Games
London 05:00 Diving: Summer Olympic
Games London 06:00 Football: Summer
Olympic Games London 07:00 Olympic
Games: Together To London 07:30 Olympic
Games: English Breakfast 09:30 Athletics:
Summer Olympic Games London 11:30 Ca-
Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele BlancSec 17:45 Larry Crowne 19:30 Stars In Style
20:05 Miral 22:00 Dilemma 23:55 Julia’s Eyes
01:55 Ward 03:25 English Patient
06:05 The Story Of Us 07:45 Cine News
08:45 The Cove 10:20 Thor 12:20 Cine
News 12:50 Rango 14:40 My Life So Far
16:20 Sleuth 17:55 Spotlight On 18:30 The
Beaver 20:05 Morning Glory 22:00 The
Color Of Money 00:05 8 Mile 02:00 The
Marrying Man 04:00 Cine News 04:40 The
Resident
noeing: Summer Olympic Games London
13:45 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games
London 17:00 Volleyball: Summer Olympic
Games London 19:00 Handball: Summer
Olympic Games London 20:30 Athletics:
Summer Olympic Games London 23:30
Handball: Summer Olympic Games London
00:00 Basketball: Summer Olympic Games
London 01:00 Olympic Games: Together
To London 01:30 Diving: Summer Olympic
Games London 02:30 Athletics: Summer
Olympic Games London
05:30 The Amazing Race 06:15 Family Guy
07:05 Lost 07:50 How I Met Your Mother
08:40 Terriers 09:30 Criminal Minds 10:15
The Amazing Race 11:05 Family Guy 11:55
Lost 12:40 How I Met Your Mother 13:30
Terriers 14:15 Criminal Minds 15:00 Neighbors From Hell 15:25 Bob’s Burgers 15:50
The League 16:15 The Amazing Race 17:05
Family Guy 17:55 Lost 18:40 How I Met Your
Mother 19:30 Terriers 20:15 Criminal Minds
21:00 Neighbors From Hell 21:25 Bob’s
Burgers 21:50 The League 22:15 Call Me
Fitz 22:45 Terriers 23:30 Neighbors From
Hell 23:55 Bob’s Burgers 00:20 The League
00:45 Call Me Fitz 01:15 The Amazing Race
02:05 Family Guy 02:55 Lost 03:45 How I
Met Your Mother 04:35 Terriers
07:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 Decoded 09:00 Battle 10:00 Pawn Stars 11:00 Ax Men 12:00 Ice
Road Truckers 14:00 Battle 15:00 Decoded
16:00 Ice Road Truckers 18:00 Battle 19:00
Decoded 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Ax Men
22:00 America: The Story Of The Us 23:00
Treasure Houses Of Britain 00:00 Pawn Stars
01:00 Ax Men 02:00 America: The Story Of
The Us 03:00 Treasure Houses Of Britain
04:00 Decoded 05:00 Battle 06:00 Ax Men
07:30 All About Steve 09:30 Father Hood
11:10 Due Date 12:45 Jonah Hex 14:10
Boiler Room 16:10 Friends 17:00 Dan In
Real Life 19:00 Friends 20:00 LTV Sports
News 21:00 Shelter 23:00 Greenberg 01:00
Hustler TV 02:35 Circle Of Eight 04:00 Action Zone 04:30 Creation 06:30 LTV Sports
News
19:50 Midnight Run 22:00 Ncis Enemies Domestic 23:00 «Bloody Fridays» Frozen 00:40
Cine News 01:30 Section Disciplinaire 03:05
The Fate Of Love X 04:30 Devil
07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Steven
Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 08:15 Steven
Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures
08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 ScoobyDoo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The
Animated Series 09:55 Big Cartoonie Show
10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy
& Chum Chum 11:10 X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, KaiLan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B! 13:40 My
Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold!
14:30 Icarly 14:55 Icarly 15:20 Batman: The
Brave And The Bold 17:00 ATP World Tour
Uncovered 17:30 Planet Speed 18:00 Barclays Premier League World 18:30 ATP World
Tour Uncovered 19:00 PGA Tour Classic Films
20:00 Best Basket League OPAP Games Of
The Season 22:00 La LIGA Pre-Season Show
2012-13 23:00 Best Soccer Games Of The
Season: Barclay’s Premier League 01:00
Planet Speed 01:30 2011 World’s Strongest
Man 02:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 04:00 Nascar
Sprint Cup Series
07:15 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 08:00 Two And A Half Men 08:30 Harry’s
Law 10:00 Friends 10:25 V I 11:15 Mentalist
12:45 Supernatural 13:30 Terminator: The
Sarah Connor Chronicles 14:15 Harry’s Law
15:45 Big Bang Theory 16:15 According To
Jim 17:00 Sons Of Anarchy 18:45 Supernatural 19:30 Desperate Housewives 20:15 Trust
Me 21:00 Friends 21:30 Hawaii Five-0 22:15
Alcatraz 23:05 True Blood 00:05 Goods: Live
Hard, Sell Hard 02:00 Election 03:55 Big
Bang Theory 04:20 According To Jim 05:05
Sons Of Anarchy
08:00 Phenomenon (1996) 10:15 Season Of
The Witch 12:00 Twilight 13:35 Action Zone
14:00 Last Song 16:00 Boxer (2009) 18:00
Serious Man 20:00 The Losers 22:00 Too Big
To Fail 00:05 Daring! TV 04:00 Singles 05:45
Sparkle
06:05 Woman Who Dreamed Of A Man 07:40
Azur Et Asmar 09:20 Man Of The House
11:00 Cine News 11:55 Joe Somebody 13:35
Doctor Dolittle 15:05 Cine News 15:55 The
19:25 Last Night 21:00 Sommersby 23:00
Birth 00:40 The Emperor’s Club 02:30 Cruel
Intentions 04:10 The Ladykillers
21:00 Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice 22:50 Good
Neighbor Sam
04:00 USGA U.S. Women’s Amateur Rd. 2
from Cleveland , OH 06:00 Tour of Utah Highlights 07:00 Feherty - Peter Alliss 08:00 Golf
with Style - San Diego 08:30 The Golf Fix 09:00
Golf Central International LIVE From The PGA
Championship 10:00 MLB: Toronto Blue Jays
at Tampa Bay Rays 13:00 Hard Parts: South
Bronx Saab Story 13:30 Pass Time 14:00
Car Warriors ‘69 VW Bugs 15:00 USGA U.S.
Women’s Amateur Rd. 2 from Cleveland , OH
17:00 PRE GAME(E) 17:45 CHAMPIONSHIP
LAIKI POPULAR BANK 2011-12: ARHS VS
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American Le Mans Series Mid-Ohio Lexington, OH 23:00 Tour of Utah 01:00 Hard Parts:
South Bronx Saab Story
07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Nomad’s Land
09:00 Think Green 10:00 Food Tripper 11:00
Planet Food 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 The
World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 14:00 Out
Of Country 14:30 Travel Today 15:00 Nomad’s Land 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 Food
Tripper 18:00 Planet Food 19:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 4real 00:30 Essential 01:00 Globe
Trekker 05:00 Planet Food 06:00 The Thirsty
Traveler 06:30 Chef Abroad
06.00 Catlow 07.40 Moonﬂeet 09.05 The Tunnel Of Love 10.40 Ride, Vaquero! 12.10 The
Honeymoon Machine 13.35 The Yellow RollsRoyce 15.35 The Prisoner Of Zenda 17.15
The Trouble With Girls 18.55 The Champ
21.00 The Dirty Dozen 23.25 The Haunting
01.15 G-Men 02.40 Seven Women 04.05 Silk
Stockings
Friday, August 10, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL
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CRYPTIC 2157
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS
8
Across
9
1 & 8 Does a pupil occupy
10
this at school? (4,2,8)
9 Commission a soldier with
love (4)
12
10 Sweets returned under
12
13
16
17
18
21
22
24
25
26
pressure (8)
Hostility from king appearing in the past (5)
In favour of support being
curtailed (3)
Enforce tax (6)
Pulverise it in church (6)
Endlessly tense step (3)
Odd number seen divided by ﬁve (5)
Walking short way before
going on a bicycle (8)
Fitting encounter (4)
Land a caber awkwardly
on the light (10)
Cornettist’s part after
deductions (4)
Down
2 & 23 He proposes to put it
11
13
14
16
15
17
18 19
20
22
HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the
grid so that every row,
every column and every
3x3 box contains the
digits 1-9. There’s no
maths involved, you
solve the puzzle with
reasoning and logic.
With the ‘X’ sudoku, the
shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.
21
23
24
25
26
men together (10)
13 Go up and down (3)
14 Works in the shop sometimes (3)
15 More senior-sounding
civic dignitary (8)
EASY
EASY
MEDIUM
HARD
19 Year book (6)
20 Might one dread seeing
this snake? (5)
22 Hit well below the belt!
(4)
23 See 2 down
on a lady’s ﬁnger (10-4)
QUICK: Across – 1 French bread; 9 Comma; 10 Paradox; 11 Indiana;
13 Betel; 14 Van; 15 Clout; 16 Bin; 17 Mover; 19 Tartlet; 21 Noxious; 23
Bingo; 24 Entertained. Down – 2 Ramadan; 3 Nyala; 4 Hop; 5 Rarebit; 6
Audit; 7 Achievement; 8 Explanation; 12 Adopt; 15 Corrode; 16 Balance;
18 Vixen; 20 Rabbi; 22 Set.
Rating EASY
CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Egg-and-spoon; 9 Rodeo; 10 Mammoth; 11 Matelot; 13 Kneel; 14 Sea; 15 Robin; 16 See; 17 Heart; 19 Telling; 21 Outstay; 23 Laden; 24 Entrance fee. Down – 2 Godetia; 3 Atoll; 4 Dim; 5
Pumpkin; 6 Ozone; 7 Drama school; 8 Challenging; 12 Tibet; 15 Rotator;
16 Spindle; 18 Acton; 20 Lille; 22 Yen.
Rating HARD
Answers to crossword 2156
Rating MEDIUM
relocated (8)
4 He was not meant to be
taken seriously in court
(6)
5 Incomprehensible language (5)
6 Prejudice against going
straight (4)
7 Agreed but not about being elderly (4)
11 Lure some prominent ice-
Rating MEDIUM
3 Workshop or loo, Tom
QUICK
Across
Down
1 Whirl (4)
8 Constantly in mind
2 Beauty (10)
3 Absurdity (8)
4 Japanese religion (6)
5 Priory (5)
6 Floating structure (4)
7 Understand (4)
11 Ignored (10)
13 Antelope (3)
14 Row (3)
15 Resolute (8)
19 Revolve (6)
20 Grin (5)
22 Sea-eagle (4)
23 Tugs (4)
(2,3,5)
9 Stingy (4)
10 Undercurrent (8)
12 Soak (5)
13 Deity (3)
16 Complete agreement
(6)
HOROSCOPE
17 One after another (2,4)
18 Vase (3)
21 Deluge (5)
22 Assess (8)
24 Enquires (4)
25 Informal report (10)
26 Neat (4)
ARIES March 21 - April 20
LEO July 23 - August 22
SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21
Try not to let yourself be pressured into doing things you
don’t really want to do. There may be a tendency for certain others to try to impose upon you, and with Mars in Libra you may wonder whether refusing is the right thing to
do. Compromise may be best. Meanwhile you may have
many positive ideas for improving your current situation.
Even though you feel happy and positive you may be
putting pressure on yourself to achieve a goal or obtain
a certain result. But if you’re too hard on yourself you
may not get anywhere at all. It may be time to cut yourself
some slack. Connect with friends and associates and see
if they have any ideas that can assist you in achieving your
aims.
If you’re planning a long trip or holiday, you’ll ﬁnd that life
is much easier now that Mercury has turned direct. You
can go ahead and book your ﬂights or hotel, and shouldn’t
suffer any delays or unnecessary problems. On another
note, friends may be proving particularly stubborn right
now. It probably isn’t worth arguing - instead try to see
the funny side.
TAURUS April 21 - May 21
VIRGO August 23 - September 23
CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20
The Moon remains in your sign for much of the day, so you
may feel very comfortable in your own skin. With Venus in
your communication zone, you may feel moved to write a
touching letter to a friend or relative that you’ve not seen or
heard from in some time. It’s a lovely way to make contact
and convey your natural warmth at the same time.
You may feel under pressure money wise, and ﬁnd it hard
to come up with an idea that might make things better.
Don’t keep investing in a dead-end situation instead relax
your focus and get on with things that you can succeed
at. There is a way to resolve your problem, but giving in to
your fears and constantly worrying isn’t going to be one
of them.
At work you have the opportunity to negotiate a few choice
deals, but also think about enhancing your skills for better
prospects. Mercury is currently in your business zone, so
you may be keen to look for the best deals or contracts. If
a fellow professional or co-worker has been causing you
angst it helps to be diplomatic and not to rock the boat.
GEMINI May 22 - June 21
LIBRA September 24 - October 23
AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19
Now that Mercury has turned direct in your communication zone, you can go ahead with projects knowing that
you can make good progress. This is a great time to share
your message with the world, especially if there is a goal
you want to achieve, or if you have a business or service
that you want to advertise. Take action and reap your reward.
You seem to be in two minds about the best way to get
ahead. On the one hand you may be feeling restless and
keen to do anything to move out of your comfort zone, yet
you also seem to be fearful of what might happen if you do
take the plunge. Perhaps you could try taking baby steps,
by outlining your goal and doing things stage by stage.
Give yourself the beneﬁt of the doubt. You may have
planned to tackle some major projects today, but at the
same time, you could also feel a burning desire to take
it easy. The only problem being that you feel guilty taking time out to do something about this. If you don’t give
yourself a chance to relax, you may discover you are even
more tired later on.
CANCER June 22 - July 22
SCORPIO October 24 - November 22
PISCES February 20 - March 20
You may feel more drawn to connect with people you
haven’t heard from in some time, as Venus in your sign
encourages you to reach out to others. This might be a
good way to kick start your social life as you may feel keen
to join a group or club connected with your interests. You
may be keen to invest in information which could resolve
a dilemma.
Things are looking a lot more positive career wise now
that Mercury has turned direct. This is a good time to think
about applying for jobs, attending interviews or perhaps
having a word with the boss about that troubling issue.
You’re also very much in the spotlight, and can use this to
your advantage. Make sure your actions help to improve
your image.
If you have been holding back from having work done on
your home, or have been putting off of selling your property, matters may take a turn for the better now that Mercury
is now direct - if it feels right go ahead. Jupiter is currently
in your home zone and is excellent for moving to a new
location or for expanding your home and giving yourself
more room.
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CYPRUS MAIL Friday, August 10, 2012
Sport
Stormy night
in Europa
battles for
Cyprus sides
By Nemanja Bjedov
Impressive showing: Partizan Belgrade’s manager said he ‘has not seen a team so physically superior in a long time’
Champs AEL praised by Partizan
By Nemanja Bjedov
PARTIZAN Belgrade manager Vladimir Vermezovic
was full of praise for Cyprus
champions AEL, saying
he ‘has not seen a team so
physically superior in a long
time.”
On Wednesday night, Dosa
Junior ﬁred the Limassol
side into the Champions
League play-off round after a tense third qualifying
round tie in Belgrade despite playing for more than
an hour with ten men.
The Cypriots sealed their
progress with their ﬁrst
away win in UEFA competition after recording a
second successive 1-0 win
against their Serbian oppo-
‘Our philosophy is to play good football’
nents.
“Before the ﬁrst game I
said that qualiﬁcation will
be decided over two games.
Our game plan was to push
for a goal, because our philosophy is to play good quality football at all times. If we
sat back and tried to defend
a 1-0 ﬁrst leg advantage we
would have a difﬁcult time,
as it would have been very
difﬁcult to defend in such
an atmosphere,” said AEL
manager Pambos Christodoulou.
AEL took the lead 23 minutes into the game when Luciano Bebe’s corner found
its way to Dosa Junior via
Jorge Monteiro, and Junior tucked the ball in from
close range.
Five minutes later AEL’s
joy turned to despair as
Monteiro, booked earlier
on, was shown his second
yellow card.
“After we scored and had
a man sent off my players
worked incredibly hard. Not
only did we successfully defend, but we also tried to
score another goal.
“To come out victorious
against Partizan at their
stadium and have their fans
applauding us speaks vol-
umes. I want to thank my
players, the club administration and the president
for making all this possible.
Also, I want to thank AEL
supporters because they
are always with us, both in
Cyprus and across Europe.”
Christodoulou concluded.
Partizan could not make
their numerical advantage
count and AEL successfully
stiﬂed the hosts attacks in a
second half that offered little in the way of goalmouth
action.
“I believe that my players
gave everything they had.
Most of them are young
guys and they represent
the future of our club. I am
proud of them. I know they
wanted to win and they
tried to do so, but their effort on the night was not
enough to beat AEL,” Vermezovic said.
The Cypriots are now just
one step away from emulating APOEL last year by
reaching the group stage of
the competition.
Their next opponents will
be known after today’s draw
by UEFA and, with AEL being placed in the Champions Route of the draw, they
will face one of the following
sides: Basel of Switzerland,
Belgium’s Anderlecht, Scottish side Celtic, BATE Borisov of Belarus or Croatian
champions Dinamo Zagreb.
United waiting for Arsenal response over Van Persie bid
Robin van Persie is a wanted man after revealing he wants
to leave Arsenal, who are reluctant to sell the Dutch striker
SIR Alex Ferguson says
Manchester United’s attempts to sign Robin van
Persie from Arsenal have
stalled.
The Dutch striker, 29, has
11 months left on his Arsenal
contract and has declined
an offer to extend his deal at
Emirates Stadium.
“We’ve made a bid, Arsenal
have been trying to negotiate with other clubs,” United
manager Ferguson was quoted by the BBC.
“I don’t have a gut feeling
about it. We can’t get a breakthrough with Arsenal.”
Ferguson ﬁrst revealed the
Red Devils had made an offer
for the Gunners forward on
July 20.
It is understood Arsenal are
reluctant to enter formal ne-
gotiations until a bid exceeds
£20m.
“I don’t know what Arsenal’s
thoughts are because they’re
not giving anything away,” he
told reporters after United’s
friendly against Barcelona in
Gothenburg on Wednesday,
which ﬁnished in a 0-0 draw
before Barca won 2-0 on penalties.
“It’s difﬁcult to say why
they’re operating this way. I
can’t give you any more information. We just have to persevere.
“We are trying our best and
hopefully it will come our way
but there’s no progress at this
moment in time.”
Juventus are also interested
in Van Persie, while Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini
revealed the Premier League
champions were now out of
the running for the striker.
Meanwhile, Ferguson admitted to being staggered after
hearing that another summer
transfer target, Lucas Moura,
had agreed to join French side
Paris St-Germain.
The Brazilian, who is representing his country at the
London Olympics, will join in
January 2013 on a four-and-ahalf-year deal from Sao Paulo.
“To tell everyone that PSG
are here, they’ve signed Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic,” added Ferguson.
“They must have spent about
£150m in the last month.
“When somebody’s paying
45 million euros (£35.5m) for
a 19-year-old boy you have to
say the game’s gone mad. I
ﬁnd it quite amazing.”
APOEL, Anorthosis and
Omonia all saw UEFA Europa League action yesterday evening, in the third
qualifying round’s return
legs of their respective ties,
with only APOEL advancing
to the play-off round of the
competition.
After narrowly defeating
Aalesunds FK of Norway
2-1 last Thursday at Nicosia’s GSP Stadium, Ivan
Jovanovic’s APOEL faced a
hard task at the Colour Line
Stadium in the Norwegian
coastal city.
However, the Cypriot side
imposed their game on the
hosts early on and, when
Aldo Adorno beat Sten
Grytebust in Aalesund’s goal
in the 36th minute, it was
clear Kjetil Rekdal’s men
would have to do something
special to progress to the
play-off round. Unfortunately
for them, Dionisios Chiotis
stopped all of their four goalbound attempts.
At Larnaca’s Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Anorthosis hosted Georgia’s FC Dila
Gori and, after winning the
ﬁrst leg 1-0 away, they were
deﬁnitely in charge of the tie.
The Ammochostos side took
the early initiative, with Giannis Okkas failing to score
on two occasions in the ﬁrst
30 minutes of the game. The
visitors’ ﬁrst serious threat
to Marko Blazic’s goal came
in the 31st minute, when he
was forced to produce a great
save after Mate Vatsadze’s
shot. At this point it was
obvious the Georgians had
not come to defend, as they
needed to score at least twice
in regulation to advance.
Seven minutes after the
interval it was Vatsadze who
opened proceedings, and
their skipper Lasha Salukvadze thereafter made it 2-0
with 14 minutes remaining.
Vincent Laban was shown
a straight red card two
minutes later and in-form
Vatsadze netted again in the
81st minute to ensure his
side’s place in today’s draw.
The outraged home fans
then invaded the pitch seven
minutes from time, forcing
Hungarian referee Mihaly Fabian to abandon the match.
Anorthosis supporters went
on to pelt police with stones,
injuring two ofﬁcers.
In the Cypriot capital, Omonia took on FC Red Star Belgrade after a goalless draw
last week in Serbia, chasing
their ﬁrst-ever participation
in a group stage of a European competition.
But after 120 minutes of play,
Red Star won 6-5 on penalties, with their goalkeeper
Boban Bajkovic making a
crucial save in the seventh
series, tipping Danielson’s
shot to the goal post to send
his outﬁt through to the playoff round.
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Beach volleyball pair continue
to rewrite the record books
Medics get
athletes
‘back out
there to do it’
Americans
revel in triple
gold delight
By Kate Kelland
By Estelle Shirbon
UNITED States pair Misty
May-Treanor
and
Kerri
Walsh won their third successive Olympic gold medal
in women’s beach volleyball
by beating compatriots Jennifer Kessy and April Ross in
straight sets.
May-Treanor and Walsh
took gold in Athens in 2004
and again in Beijing in 2008.
No other beach volleyball
team, men or women, have
retained an Olympic title, let
alone won a third.
At the end of the match,
which ﬁnished 21-16 21-16,
the two women fell to their
knees face-to-face in the
sand and hugged.
Then they got up, bathed
in tears, and ran off in different directions to embrace
family and friends, including
Walsh’s two young sons, and
do high ﬁves with Olympic
volunteers.
“It’s insane,” said Walsh,
her mascara smudged from
tears.
“It doesn’t feel like it’s real.
I told Misty when we were
getting our medals, ‘If I wake
up tomorrow and we have
to replay this match I’m going to be furious’, because it
feels like we’re in a dream.
“It truly feels surreal. And it
didn’t feel like that the ﬁrst
two times, for whatever reason. But this is just, it’s almost too good to be true.”
Misty May-Treanor (left) and Kerri Walsh won their third successive Olympic gold medal. No other beach volleyball
team, men or women, have retained an Olympic title, let alone won a third
Walsh was in tears throughout the medal ceremony,
closing her eyes, throwing her
head back and exhaling as
she struggled to control her
emotions. May-Treanor, who
will now retire from competition, smiled and appeared
relaxed on the podium.
It was a remarkable outcome for May-Treanor and
Walsh, who spent more than
two years away from the
sport after their gold medal
in Beijing.
Walsh had two baby boys
less than a year apart, while
May-Treanor was out with
an Achilles injury picked up
rehearsing for the TV programme Dancing with the
Stars in 2008.
After lengthy soul-searching, the pair got back together in 2011 to try for a third
gold.
The Olympic venue in London was a ﬁtting setting for
the pair to achieve their goal.
The 15,000-seat stadium,
the biggest in beach volleyball history, is in the heart of
London against he backdrop
of the city skyline with the
London Eye lighting up the
night sky.
Watching from the stands
was Britain’s Prince Harry,
whose grandmother Queen
Elizabeth resides a stone’s
throw away, at Buckingham
Palace.
Ross and Kessy were excited by the royal visit.
“We actually watched him
walk by today. We were coming through security,” said
Kessy. Ross added: “We
thought the cameras were for
us because they were ﬁlming
us walking. And then someone was like, ‘Oh, Prince
Harry’s right behind you’.”
A laughing Kessy added,
“We were like, ‘Oh, we’re not
that famous, are we?”
Silky Merritt ends US drought
By Nick Mulvenney
Aries Merritt led home a US one-two to bring the title back
to America for the ﬁrst time in 16 years
ARIES Merritt capped a
phenomenal two months by
storming to gold in the 110
metres hurdles, bringing the
title back to the United States
for the ﬁrst time in 16 years.
The 27-year-old world indoor champion made the
most of perfect conditions
to run his ﬁfth sub-13 second
time in the last two months
and claim victory in a personal best time of 12.92 seconds.
Merritt made an excellent
start but was shadowed by defending champion and world
record holder Dayron Robles
until the Cuban pulled up after jumping the sixth hurdle
with a hamstring problem.
Merritt powered on and,
after world champion Jason
Richardson gained on him
with a late surge, dipped low
to cross the line ﬁrst in the
fastest time in the world this
year.
“The gold medal means everything,” Merritt told reporters. “The US haven’t had a
gold medal since Allen Johnson in 1996. It’s phenomenal.
To be here in this atmosphere
is really special.
“I’m so excited, words can’t
explain how excited I am
right now. People were talking about a world record but
12.92 into a headwind is still
pretty impressive. I am happy
with that.”
Richardson won silver for a
US one-two in 13.04 seconds
and bronze went to Hansle
Parchment, who crossed the
line in a Jamaican record time
of 13.12.
“Going one-two, it says we
are a major global power
when it comes to hurdling. It
was an honour to be part of a
race where America got the
gold,” Richardson said.
“The guys were talking about
closing the gap on China, I
know America will get that
medal haul and we will show
we are the best track and ﬁeld
nation in the world.”
Merritt has often been overshadowed by better-known
compatriots in recent years
but hit a rich vein of form this
season.
After beating former world
record holder Liu Xiang at the
world indoor championships
to claim his ﬁrst major title,
Merritt really hit his stride in
the run-up to the Games.
Robles, who has barely competed this year because of
a long-standing complaint
caused by his ﬂat feet, slapped
out at a hurdle in frustration
at being unable to coax his
body through two races in
two hours.
Disqualiﬁed at the world
championships in Daegu last
year for impeding Liu in the
ﬁnal, Robles has lost both his
major international titles in
the last 12 months but said
he would race on.
“I had a problem with my
hamstring and I had to stop,”
he told reporters.
“I’d been having problems
all year with the other hamstring. I did everything I
could. I ran super easy in the
semi-ﬁnals. I was going for it
but that’s athletics and that’s
the Olympics.
“I’ve got to carry on.”
OLYMPIC doctors have
had 20,000 consultations
with athletes, spectators, staff and journalists
during London 2012, but
the Games’ head medic is
quietly conﬁdent at how
they have been able to ﬁx
most people up to get on
with the show.
Hockey players have
broken bones, wrestlers
have suffered bulging
black eyes, cyclists have
crashed, athletes have
torn muscles and spectators have had heart
attacks - and according
to chief medical ofﬁcer
Richard Budgett, each has
been treated swiftly and
effectively.
“It’s been really busy. But
there’s also been enough
time to do things well,”
Budgett told Reuters.
“The vast majority have
been joint strains or muscle sprains. Some injuries
are more serious than
others, and broken bones
are a fraction of them,” he
said. “We’ve got two MRI
scanners and they’ve been
going ﬂat out from 7 in the
morning to 11 at night.”
Budgett is in no doubt
about his top priorities.
The athletes’ health is
paramount, he says, as
is getting them back into
action.
“They are here for a onceevery-four-years event,”
he said. “You’ll never get a
more motivated bunch.
“It’s up to us and the
team doctors to make that
call - about whether it’s
appropriate for an injured
athlete to compete. And
actually nine times out of
10, it is.
“They may be in some
pain, they may have an
injury, but as long as there
is no dangerous long-term
effect of competing, then
you get them back out
there to do it.”
Athletes at the Games
have access to 24-hour free
healthcare ranging from
state of the art eye care
and dentistry to sports
physiotherapy, osteopathy
and surgery at a 23 million
pound ‘polyclinic’ in the
Olympic village.
Smaller medical teams
including physiotherapists,
sports medicine specialists
and sometimes an emergency doctors, anaesthetists and orthopaedic surgeons are at every sports
venue ready to react if
someone goes down.
“The venue teams have
actually been really quiet,”
said Budgett. “Most of the
time they don’t even get
their hands on an athlete.”
“The overwhelming majority of the work has been
at the clinic. In all, we’ve
had around 20,000 consultations so far, including
about 4,000 with athletes.”
Two people have died, one
a man who was knocked
off his bike and killed and
another a spectator who
had a heart attack.
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Olympic Games
London calling for javelin man Thorkildsen
By Justin Palmer
The Norwegian is aiming for a third straight javelin gold
ANDREAS Thorkildsen has
been dogged by injuries this
season but the return to the
stage he loves best has put
the Norwegian in the mood to
emulate the great Jan Zelezny
and win a third successive Olympic javelin gold.
“I love this stuff, walking
into a stadium of 80,000 people cheering, it’s good fun,”
Thorkildsen told reporters
after getting his timing right
with his second qualifying
throw to reach tomorrow’s
ﬁnal.
“This is where we create new
memories. Beijing was awesome...this is London, let’s
make it better.”
The 30-year-old was understandably rusty with his
ﬁrst effort of 76.20, but made
no mistake on his next attempt and, qualifying mark
achieved, was able to sit back
down and lap up the atmosphere on a warm evening in
the capital.
Thorkildsen is hoping to
match world record holder
Zelezny’s three golds which
the Czech won between 1992
and 2000, but has struggled to
hit top form this year.
“It’s been my groin and
quads and back...you name it
and I’ll add it,” he said. “Age?
- that’s probably the biggest
one,” he said.
“I have still stuff to work on,
timing... I’m not as consistent
as I’ve been before and that’s
all because of injuries and not
being able to compete that
much.
“Hopefully, this qualifying
will lead to having a good ﬁnal
Spain on course for golden
showdown with Dream Team
IN BRIEF
HOLDERS
the
United
States and Spain are one
step away from a rematch of
the 2008 gold-medal game
after recording quarter-ﬁnal victories in the Olympic
men’s basketball.
The US, getting a lift from
Kobe Bryant and LeBron
James, eliminated a game
and gritty Australia team
119-86 while Spain prevailed
66-59 in a tough and testy
encounter with France.
The Americans now meet
Argentina in today’s semiﬁnals while Spain take on
Russia.
Argentina ousted arch-rivals Brazil 82-77 and Russia
eased past Lithuania 83-74.
The high-powered US
Dream Team spluttered
against the fearless Australians before Bryant, who had
been relatively quiet during these Games, came to
life by putting on a fourthquarter show.
He drilled four threepointers in succession to
chants of ‘Kobe, Kobe’ from
the North Greenwich Arena
crowd as the Americans
raced away from their tiring
opponents.
“Kobe’s usually been the
best player every night we
play (in the NBA) so it’s
great to see him go off like
that,” point guard Chris
Paul told reporters after
Los Angeles Lakers leader
Bryant collected 20 points.
“He could do that every
night but our team is so
deep he doesn’t need to.”
Spain broke open a ﬁerce
defensive battle in the ﬁnal
minute to win a bad-tempered contest that threatened to turn into a brawl.
HARD HITS
Back-to-back fouls for
unsportsmanlike
behaviour were handed out to
France’s Ronny Turiaf and
Nicolas Batum for hard hits
while players from both
teams had to be restrained
by ofﬁcials.
“Nobody likes to lose in
the quarter-ﬁnal of the Olympics,” said Spain’s Marc
Gasol who led the winners
with 14 points.
“Everybody wants to ﬁght
for those medals. Sometimes it gets a little out of
hand because emotions get
involved. Nobody got hurt,
that’s the most important
thing.”
Argentina overcame a
sluggish start and a late
Brazilian rally to return to
the semi-ﬁnals.
It is the third successive
appearance in the last four
for the South Americans
who won gold in 2004 and
bronze in 2008.
The Argentines jumped
up and down with joy before singing along with their
fans in celebration.
“We hung in there in the
end and got an awesome
win,” said the experienced
Manu Ginobili. “It’s very,
very hard to make an Olympics semi-ﬁnal and against
Brazil for us it’s maybe even
more special.”
Russia made the most of
their strength under the
basket to beat Lithuania as
they kept up their challenge
for a ﬁrst basketball medal
in 12 years.
Andrei Kirilenko played
his usual brilliant all-round
game for Russia while burly
centre Timofey Mozgov operated with great effect.
Kirilenko led Russia with
19 points and had a gamehigh 13 rebounds. Mozgov
added 17 points.
“It was a physical game,
Lithuania are a physical
team. They were strong.
The whole game was tough,”
said the 7-foot-1 (2.16-metre) Mozgov before adding
that Kirilenko’s points haul
was routine.
“He played very well,” said
Mozgov. “I can’t remember a game when he played
badly.”
Lifesavers
lift Australia
with K4
canoe gold
By Kate Holton
Argentina and Russia stand in the way
in thrilling basketball competition
By Larry Fine
and getting my timing back.”
Thorkildsen said he could
take a great deal of conﬁdence from his 84 metre effort, although it was a long
way off the Olympic record
90.57 mark he threw to win
gold in Beijing.
“It was a little shaky,” the
2009 world champion said of
his opening throw.
“Just getting that 84 was
comforting, to feel that it’s
there, after that 76. I know
what I’ve done in practice but
practice and competition are
different things.”
Take that! LA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant nailed four threepointers in succession to put the Aussies in their place
THE Australian men’s
kayak four, surf lifesavers
before taking up the sport,
ended Europe’s stranglehold yesterday when they
grabbed gold at the Olympic canoe regatta to drive
their faltering country up
the medal table.
The men’s crew of Tate
and David Smith, Murray
Stewart and Jacob Clear
ﬁred off the start to beat
favourites Hungary and
Germany amid a cacophony of noise from the
grandstands.
Roared on by a huge Hungarian contingent on the
banks, the eight kayaks
came through the last 100
metres with bodies straining forward, arms whirling, legs driving and water
splashing everywhere as
Australia prevailed in a
close ﬁnish.
The race was the only one
to go against the form
book at a regatta dominated by the ﬁght between
Germany and Hungary.
With two days of ﬁnals
complete, the sport which
is often overshadowed by
its more illustrious sister
rowing, has awarded eight
gold medals, three to
Hungary and three to Germany. Norway took a gold
on Wednesday.
“We knew we could do it,”
Tate Smith told reporters
having helped lift Australia to 10th in the overall
medals standings after
a disappointing London
Games so far.
Pistorius allowed to run in
replay after appeal
Briton Adams takes first
women’s boxing gold
Teenage Cyprus gymnast
Trikomiti in 17th place
OSCAR Pistorius has a chance of a historic Olympic medal after the South African team were
granted a place in the 4x400m ﬁnal on appeal
yesterday.
His team-mate Ofentse Mogawane had crashed
out during the second relay heat as Pistorius
waited for the baton.
Pistorius, nicknamed ‘Blade Runner’ because of
his prosthetic legs, made history in the 400m as
the ﬁrst amputee sprinter at the Olympics.
He said on Twitter: “Thank you Lord. Emotional
rollercoaster.”
GREAT Britain’s Nicola Adams made history by beating China’s Ren Cancan to become the ﬁrst woman to
win an Olympic boxing gold medal.
Leeds ﬁghter Adams produced a stunning performance
to overcome the three-time world champion 16-7 in the
ﬁnal of the ﬂyweight competition.
Adams, 29, was already guaranteed a silver medal after
outpointing Indian legend Mary Kom, the ﬁve-time
world champion, 11-6 on Wednesday.
“I have just wanted this all my life, all this support
has really made my day. I am just so happy and overwhelmed,” Adams told the BBC.
CYPRIOT rhythmic gymnast Chrystalleni Trikomiti
ﬁnished the ﬁrst two rotations of the Individual AllAround competition in 17th place with 52.500 points
yesterday afternoon at Wembley Arena.
Trikomiti got the same grade of 26.250 for both ball and
hoop routines, but could have done better if she was
not penalised 0.050 points for an error with the hoop.
The competition continues today at 2pm and the 18year-old from Larnaca needs to produce outstanding
performances with the remaining two apparatuses,
ribbon and clubs, in order to book a spot among the
top ten ﬁnalists.
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Sport
Spain on course
for golden
showdown with
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Bolt blazes to sprint double
Jamaicans claim 200m clean sweep, Rudisha sets sensational 800m world record
By Justin Palmer
J
AMAICAN Usain Bolt
etched his name further into Olympic folklore by completing an
unprecedented and sensational sprint double-double
with a smooth 200 metres
victory in the fourth fastest
time ever run last night.
The world’s fastest man,
whose imperious performances in London have
blown away all doubts
that he deserves the unofﬁcial title of greatest ever
sprinter, stopped the clock
at 19.32 seconds for victory
in his favourite event.
Bolt has now matched his
stunning Beijing 100 and
200 crowns four years ago
following his shorter-dash
victory on Sunday.
Compatriot Yohan Blake,
as he did in the 100 behind his friend and training
partner, took silver in 19.44
and Warren Weir completed
a Jamaican podium sweep
with bronze in 19.84.
“This is what I wanted
and I got it. I’m very proud
of myself,” Bolt told the
BBC.
“After a rough season I
came out here and did it.
“I thought the world
record was possible. I
guess I was fast but not
ﬁt enough. I could feel my
back strain a little bit, so all
I did was to keep my form.
I’m very dedicated to my
work and London meant so
much to me.”
Showman Bolt crossed
the line with his ﬁnger
to his lips before doing a
Leaving them speechless: Usain Bolt has made history by becoming the ﬁrst man to successfully defend both Olympic
sprint titles on a memorable night at the London Games
handful of press-ups on
the track. Then, taking a
photographer’s camera, he
took snaps of the crowd
and Blake who was posing
as ‘The Beast’, the nickname Bolt afforded his
younger rival.
The 25-year-old is the ﬁrst
man to win two 200 Olympic
golds and, as he did in 2008,
he will look to complete the
treble in the 4x100 relay.
Bolt’s
winning
time
matched that of American
Michael Johnson who set a
then world record of 19.32
to win Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996.
Bolt lowered that to 19.30
in Beijing before clocking
a remarkable 19.19 at the
Berlin world championships in 2009.
On a warm and windless
evening with the electric
atmosphere inside an expectant Olympic Stadium,
Bolt, relaxed and smiling in
the preliminaries, ﬂew out
of the blocks.
Drawn towards the outside in lane seven, Bolt
glided around the bend and
kicking powerfully down
the home straight was always ahead of Blake.
On a night of huge excitement on the track, Kenya’s
David Rudisha lit up the
Olympic Stadium an hour
before Bolt’s heroics with
a sensational victory in the
800 metres, breaking his
own world record in the
process.
As London 2012 chairman
and former Olympic 800m
silver medallist Seb Coe
looked on, Rudisha made
the most of the ideal conditions, storming through
the ﬁrst lap in 49.28 seconds and powering to the
gold medal in one minute
40.91 seconds.
That took exactly one
tenth of a second off his
previous record as all eight
ﬁnalists set a season’s best,
personal best or national
record.
Eighteen-year-old
Nijel
Amos of Botswana claimed
silver in a national record
of 1:41.73 ahead of Kenya’s
17-year-old Timothy Kitum, with Britain’s Andrew
Osagie taking 0.71s off his
personal best despite ﬁnishing eighth.
“I had no doubt about
winning but I was waiting for perfect conditions
to break the record,” the
23-year-old told reporters.
“I am happy. I’ve waited
for this moment for a long
time. To come here and get
a world record is unbelievable.”
David Rudisha lit up the
Olympic Stadium with the
ﬁrst WR on the track
‘It’s easy for doping cheats in London’
By Tony Jimenez
A broken man: Italy’s Olympic 50 km race walk champion Alex Schwazer broke down in tears during a news
conference where he said he was relieved to have been
caught doping because of the guilt he felt
VICTOR Conte, convicted
owner of the now-defunct
BALCO laboratory that was
at the centre of a global steroid scandal, said yesterday
that the drug-testing programme at the 2012 Olympics was irrelevant.
“It’s basically propaganda
to come out and say this is
the most extensively-tested
Games ever and ‘we’re doing 6,000 tests’,” Conte was
quoted as telling The Times
newspaper.
“You have to put your hook
and line in the water when
the ﬁsh are biting and that
was nine months ago. Is it
easy to use drugs and beneﬁt
during the Olympics? Yes.”
The British newspaper also
quoted Conte as estimating that “60 per cent of athletes at the Games were on
drugs”.
Scientists have been working around the clock at a specially equipped anti-doping
laboratory on the outskirts
of London analysing more
than 6,000 urine and blood
samples during the Games.
Any of the 10,000-plus competitors can be required to
test anytime, anywhere trackside, poolside, in the
athletes’ village or in private
houses - and several have already been thrown out of the
Olympics for doping.
Conte’s BALCO laboratory
in San Francisco supplied
drugs to leading athletes
including Britain’s Dwain
Chambers who was banned
for two years after testing
positive for the designer
steroid THG in 2003.
Chambers was picked for
the London Games after becoming eligible for selection
in May when the British Olympic Association’s policy
of lifetime Olympic bans for
drug cheats was overturned
by the Court of Arbitration
for Sport.
Conte was sentenced in
2005 to spend four months
in prison and another four
on house arrest.
Olympic 50 km race walk
champion Alex Schwazer,
who was excluded from the
Games for doping, said on
Wednesday it was a relief to
be caught for taking bloodbooster EPO because of the
guilt he felt after hiding it
even from his girlfriend.
The Italian’s positive test
was revealed two days ago
when the 27-year-old, who
now believes his career
is over, was provisionally
banned by his national Olympic Committee.
“When you wait for your
girlfriend to go to train so
that you can lock yourself
in the bathroom and inject
EPO in your veins so that no
one will know, it’s not nice,”
he said in an hour-long news
conference where he wept
openly.
By injecting Erythropoietin (EPO), athletes aim to
increase the concentration
of red blood cells and consequently their aerobic capacity and athletic performance.
Flanked by his lawyer
and his manager, and with
his father in the audience,
Schwazer referred to his
girlfriend - world champion
ﬁgure skater Carolina Kostner - repeatedly, saying he
regretted lying to her.
Schwazer suggested he actually wanted to get caught
because the guilt was psychologically devastating. He
said he could have tried to
skip the July 30 doping test
knowing he had made a ﬁnal
injection a day earlier, but
did not.
“I’m not made to take drugs
or to deceive people, and I
couldn’t take it anymore. I
couldn’t wait for the whole
thing to end,” he said.
Even if he had not tested
positive, he said he would
not have gone to London
for the 50 km race, which is
scheduled for tomorrow.